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Before the attack. Under Plevna by Vasily Vereshchagin

Before the attack. Under Plevna by Vasily Vereshchagin

With the beginning of the Russo-Turkish war, Vereshchagin goes to the battlefields. He participated in all the decisive battles, was at the famous storming of Plevna, made a winter crossing through the Balkans, participated in a battle near Sheinovo, which decides the outcome of the war.

Many thousands of lives were ruined by the tsarist officers in this war. The continuous forest of crosses extended on the fields of lost battles. A grandiose failure was the storming of Plevna, not prepared by the command and perfect only in honor of the birthday of the king. This assault cost innumerable human deaths committed in the eyes of the tsar, who watched it calmly from the so-called “snackbar” mountain, where at this time he feasted with his retinue.

“I can not express the severity of impressions – wrote Vereshchagin, – a solid mass of crosses… Everywhere lying around piles of fragments of grenades, soldiers bone, forgotten at the burial only on one mountain no human bones or pieces of iron, but it is still there. lying cork and fragments of bottles of champagne… “

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