The Crimean War

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Including the character of Vronsky at the end of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.

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It has since been shown that the metal in fact came from antique Chinese guns (J. Glanfield, Bravest of the Brave: The Story of the Victoria Cross (London, 2005)).

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The Rumiantsev Library and Museum, opened in Moscow in 1862, was not a public collection in this sense. It was donated to the public by a single nobleman.

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Figes, Orlando.

The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London”—T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8050-7460-4

1. Crimean War, 1853 – 1856. I. Title.

DK214.F53 2010

947’.0738—dc22

2010023152

ISBN: 978-0-8050-7460-4

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