Exposing the lies of the Crimean War, including hidden facts about war tourism, Vivandières, and the first global conflict debate.

Russell was “embedded” with the British Army during the Crimean War of 1854–56. Tolstoy served in that war on the other side, as an artillery officer. Russell’s dispatches and Tolstoy’s short stories ...

This is an Imperial Russia award from Crimean war period. It looks like its noncombatant one - dark bronze. There were 1465700 light bronze medals for combatants and 150 000 dark bronze medals for ...

Crimean war (1854-5) medal awarded to Private William Davies, Coldstream Guards, with bars for the Siege of Sebastapol and the Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman. William was born in the tiny ...

Crimean war (1854-5) medal awarded to Private William ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.