This is the thirteenth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. Because I was wet from biking in the rain, I decided to search for a ...

Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive. Her campaign for better ...

In the 1850s, Russia fought a bloody war against Britain, France and other nations. One of the main battlegrounds was Sevastopol, where Russian troops are now blockading the harbor. Today, popular ...

Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive. Her campaign for better ...

Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2018), pp. 95-124 (30 pages) Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800–1900. Second ed. Columbus ...

A conflict beginning in the early 1850s that pitted the allied forces of Great Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia against Russia. One of the causes involved a dispute between Russia and ...

Crimea is renowned for a history of enduring two long and brutal sieges of its most famous city, Sevastopol—in the Crimean War (1854-55) and in World War II. Now a third siege has begun. Since ...

In the decades following photography’s invention, portrait photographers were routinely judged on their ability to produce objective likenesses of their sitters. Many people believed that such a ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military ...