Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1872. — 312 p. Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923), an American poet and traveler. In 1867, she visited St. Petersburg, and Moscow, traveled along the Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Kamyshin), then Rostov-on-Don, Azov, Crimea, Odessa, and Moldova. As a result of this trip, in 1872, a real collection of essays, "Russian Journey", was published, in...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 224 p. Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian...
The History Press, 2018. — 240 p. The Crimean War 1853-1856 was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria’s reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians see it as an irrelevant, unnecessary conflict despite Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 564 p. The Crimean War 1854-1856 is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench...
Stroud, UK : The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them. The battle lasted less than 12 hours but was one of the bloodiest engagements in European history. While the...
St. Martin’s Press, 1987. — 289 p. In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, the rivalry between Lord Cardigan and Lord Lucan and the patriotic fervour of Imperial Britain into perspective. The Crimea campaign was a story of Great Power politics and diplomacy. In Palmer's...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 523 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. Diplomatically, it shook the power balance in Europe and reshaped it in...
Brill, 2005. — 672 p. — (History of Warfare, v. 29). This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 288 p. In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies, its chances of survival apparently nil. By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina - the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety of the Polish frontier. But instead of finding the...
Pen & Sword UK, 2014. — 232 p. Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. The author describes how each year saw dramatic developments, notably actions in Poland, Tannenberg, the Carpathian passes in 1914, the 1915 operations in Galicia and the Baltic...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 220 p. For 100 years little attention has been paid to the Russian army that fought the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians in the First World War on the Eastern Front. Yet the Tsar's army played a critical part in the global conflict and was engaged in a sequence of shattering campaigns that were waged on a massive scale on several fronts across eastern...
EBLJ 2012, Article 9. — 27 p. Russia’s last coronation took place in Moscow on 14 May still used in Russia. This was 26 May in the west’s magnificent event and its attendant ceremonies encapsu reign of Tsar Nicholas II. A series of apparently ancient Emperor to his nation while the world watched, its burgeoning media on the verge of the twentieth century rattle of telegraphs...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 583 p. Russia fought a very intense and brutal war with Japan in 1904. Japan was an emerging power and was backed by the Great Britain -- another Great Power like Russia. The war was less about Manchuria or Port Arthur and more about Korea. Doesn't it sounds like a deja vu? This is a first-rate tome containing good history. It has terrific lessons for...
Frontline Books, 2012. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84832-695-8. 1812: The Great Retreat – the third and final volume in Austin’s magisterial trilogy – concludes the story of one of history’s most disastrous campaigns. The author's previous books brought the Grand Army to the head-on battle at Malo-Jaroslavetz after withdrawing sixty miles from the burnt down capital, and for the...
Cassell Military Paperbacks, 1999. — 208 p. In the summer of 1812, having defeated almost every army in Europe, Napoleon finally began is attack on the Russian empire. For ten terrible weeks the Grande Armee swept all before them, and by September they had reached Borodino on the western approaches to Moscow. It was here that the full force of the French and Russian armies...
Vol. I. — London: the Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1904. — 438 + viii p. By H.W. Wilson, M.A. Author of "With the Flag to Pretoria", "Ironclads in Action". Illustrated with many photographs taken on the field of battle and authentic sketches by famous artists. Contents of Vol. I. The Coming of the Black Ships to Japan. The Japan-China War. The Building of the Trans-Siberian...
Vol. I. — London: the Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1904. — 438 + viii p. By H.W. Wilson, M.A. Author of "With the Flag to Pretoria", "Ironclads in Action". Illustrated with many photographs taken on the field of battle and authentic sketches by famous artists. Contents of Vol. I. The Coming of the Black Ships to Japan. The Japan-China War. The Building of the Trans-Siberian...
A Narrative of the Voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's Fleet to Eastern seas, including a detailed Account of the Dogger Bank incident. — By the late E.S. Politovsky, Engineer-in-Chief to the Squadron, who was killed at the Battle of Tsushima . — London: John Murray, Albemarle street, W., 1906. — 307 + xvi p. Translated by Major F.R. Godfrey, R.M.L.I. Beginning the voyage. Off...
A Narrative of the Voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's Fleet to Eastern seas, including a detailed Account of the Dogger Bank incident. — By the late E.S. Politovsky, Engineer-in-Chief to the Squadron, who was killed at the Battle of Tsushima . — London: John Murray, Albemarle street, W., 1906. — 307 + xvi p. Translated by Major F.R. Godfrey, R.M.L.I. Beginning the voyage. Off...