Military Glory of Russia. 1700-1917
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Military Glory of Russia. 1700-1917
149.99 €
Specialists from four federal archives: the Russian State Historical Archive, the Russian State Military History Archive, the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, and the Russian State Archive of the Navy took part in the work on the album.
The album contains letters of Peter I and A. D. Menshikov; autographs of A. S. Pushkin's great-grandfather - military engineer A. P. Hannibal; rescripts and letters of complaint of Catherine II to Russian military commanders; the "Statute of Conscription" approved by Alexander II; the manifesto of Nicholas II on the beginning of the war with Germany. Decrees and manifestos, letters and telegrams, newspapers and magazines, maps, drawings and photographs allow to trace the dramatic struggle of the Russian state for access to the Baltic and Black Seas, to reveal the heroic pages of the confrontation with Napoleonic France, to highlight the history of the creation of new Armed Forces in the era of Alexander II and tell about their struggle for the liberation of the Balkan Slavs, to pay tribute to the participants of the last military conflict of the Russian Empire - the First World War. Special attention is paid to the personalities of outstanding Russian commanders and naval commanders - B. P. Sheremetev, P. A. Rumyantsev, A. V. Suvorov, A. G. Orlov, F. F. Ushakov, M. I. Kutuzov, M. D. Skobelev, A. A. Brusilov and others. All this makes the edition interesting for the widest range of readers: students, pupils, specialists, history lovers.
The album contains letters of Peter I and A. D. Menshikov; autographs of A. S. Pushkin's great-grandfather - military engineer A. P. Hannibal; rescripts and letters of complaint of Catherine II to Russian military commanders; the "Statute of Conscription" approved by Alexander II; the manifesto of Nicholas II on the beginning of the war with Germany. Decrees and manifestos, letters and telegrams, newspapers and magazines, maps, drawings and photographs allow to trace the dramatic struggle of the Russian state for access to the Baltic and Black Seas, to reveal the heroic pages of the confrontation with Napoleonic France, to highlight the history of the creation of new Armed Forces in the era of Alexander II and tell about their struggle for the liberation of the Balkan Slavs, to pay tribute to the participants of the last military conflict of the Russian Empire - the First World War. Special attention is paid to the personalities of outstanding Russian commanders and naval commanders - B. P. Sheremetev, P. A. Rumyantsev, A. V. Suvorov, A. G. Orlov, F. F. Ushakov, M. I. Kutuzov, M. D. Skobelev, A. A. Brusilov and others. All this makes the edition interesting for the widest range of readers: students, pupils, specialists, history lovers.
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