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1874 LE DEPOT TOPOGRAPH. DE LA GUERRE - Plan général des environs de Sébastopol avec indication de la disposition générale de l'armée alliée au 24 octobre / 5 novembre 1854 et du mouvement du prince Gortchakow vers le mont Sapoune.
Plan général des environs de Sébastopol avec indication de la disposition générale de l'armée alliée au 24 octobre / 5 novembre 1854 et du mouvement du prince Gortchakow vers le mont Sapoune.
| Maker: | LE DEPOT TOPOGRAPH. DE LA GUERRE | |
| Date: | Saint-Pétersbourg / Paris, 1863-1874 | |
| Colored: | Printed colors. | |
| Size: | 730 x 960 mm / 28.7 x 37.8 inches | |
| Condition: | Lithography in colors. | |
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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.
Read more about the Crimean War and Siege of Sevastopol.
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