Crimean War
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The Crimean War (1853-1856) was fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance of the Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, with military conflicts also occuring in western Turkey, the Baltic Sea region and in the Pacific Ocean.
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[edit] Paintings
 Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville. |
 The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava by William Simpson, 1855. |
 A detail of panoramic painting The Siege of Sevastopol by Franz Roubaud, 1904. |
 British bombardment of the fortress Bomarsund (Aland Islands) during the Crimean war, drawing from 1854. |
[edit] Camps
 Army camp in Balaklava. |
 Malachov kurgan |
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 Civil building |
[edit] People
 Pavel Nakhimov |
 John Fox Burgoyne in a photo by Roger Fenton, 1855. |
 John Fox Burgoyne in a photo by Roger Fenton, 1855. |
 Lt. Gen. De Lacy Evans, 1855. Photograph by Roger Fenton. |
 Lord Clyde in a photo by Roger Fenton, ca. 1855. |
 Field Marshal Lord Raglan during the Crimean War, portrait by Roger Fenton, ca. 1855. |
 General Brown and his staff. |
 John Pennefather, 1855 |
 George Brown, 1855 |
[edit] Museums
 Museum Panorama Defence of Sevastopol 1854-1855 in Sevastopol |
[edit] Monuments
 Monument to Warriors of the 4th Bastion in Sevastopol |
 Monument to Warriors of the Yazonovsky Redoubt in Sevastopol |
 Monument to E.I. Totleben in Sevastopol |
 Stele in Memory of Leo Tolstoy's Stay on the 4th Bastion in Sevastopol |
 Monument to sailor Pyotr Koshka in Sevastopol |
 Monument to French Soldiers fallen in Dobruja during the war |
