Lot #: 33912

[Lot of 9 maps] Plan général de Sébastopol avec indication des travaux du siege et de la defense au 28 mars - 9 avril 1855. Feuille 10. xiii

Maker / Publisher:		DEPOT TOPOGRAPH. DE LA GUERRE
Place & Date:		St. Petersburg, N. Thieblin, 1863
Colored:		Printed colors.
Size:		1650 x 2000 mm / 65 x 78.7 inches
Condition:		Lithography in colors. Different sizes range from 1 meter to 2 meters in width—nine joined sheets of plans and maps of Crimea and town and regions of Sebastopol.

$2200 / ≈ €1955

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A group of nine (of 14) very rare panoramic town-plans of the siege of Sebastopol or maps of the Crimea. In lower margin : "Gravé au Dépôt topographique de la Guerre". From "Défense de Sébastopol : Ouvrage rédigé sous la direction du Lieutenant-Général E. de Todleben ... Atlas dressé à la direction générale du Génie et au Depôt Topographique de la Guerre".

This important work was published in Russian ("Opisanie oborony goroda Sevastopolia" at Tipografia N. Tiblena 1863-1874) and French and gives an account of the defense of Sevastopol by Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (1818-1884).
Ivanovich Totleben (1818-1884)
Count Eduard Ivanovich Totleben was a Russian Fortification Engineer and was born on May 8(20), 1818 in Mitau, now Latvia. His parents were of Thuringian descent, which was a Baltic German noble family. He graduated from the Military School of Engineering in St. Petersburg with a degree in Military Engineering and in 1836, joined the Imperial Russian Army.

He participated in several critical military campaigns but became the genius of defense during the Crimean War of 1853. On the outbreak of war between Russia and Turkey, he served as a junior field officer in the siege of Silistria and then was transferred to Crimea. In Sevastopol, Count Totleben advised to sink the fleet, to barricade the mouth of the harbor, and use the artillery that had belonged to the fleet. After that, he became well known as the originator of the idea that "a fortress is to be considered not as a walled town but as an entrenched position, intimately connected with the offensive and defensive capacities of an army."

In 1860, Count Totleben was appointed assistant to Grand Duke Nicholas, future tsar of Russia and then became head of the Department of Engineering of the Defense Ministry of Russia with the full rank of general. In 1878 he headed siege of Plevna operations.

He died on June 19 (July 1), 1884 in Bad Soden, Germany and was buried in Sevastopol, Russia.

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