Crimean War
July 10 1855 Admiral Nakhimov was mortally wounded on Malakhov Hill
August 16 1855 - the Russian troops were defeated in the battle on the Chornaya River.
September 8 11855 - the storm and the capture of Malakhov Hill, one of the main bastions of Sevastopol.
Right after that it was decided to leave Sevastopol; the enemy did not follow the remains of Russian troops and occupied the ruins of the city.
The war was lost, which showed the backwardness of Russia in economic, technical and military spheres
In the Baltic theater of the war Britain imposed a blockade on the Baltic waters to force Russia limit import of supplies for millitary forces and domestic economy. The blocade then turned into progressive attacks on Russian shipping that in the end resulted in destruction of Russian dockyards at Sveaborg and plan to attack Kronstadt and capture the Russian capital. But before the attack was launched, the Russians capitulated.
The peace negotiations began in 1856 under Nicholas I's successor, Alexander II. The peace Treaty was signed in March 1856 in Paris on rather hard conditions for Russia.
Warships of all nations were perpetually excluded from the Black Sea, once the home to the Russian fleet (which, however, had been destroyed in the course of the war).
Furthermore, the Tsar and the Sultan agreed not to establish any naval or military arsenal on the coast of that sea. The Black Sea clauses came at a tremendous disadvantage to Russia, for it greatly diminished the naval threat it posed to the Turks. And all the Great Powers pledged to respect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire.
Crimean war introduced 2 new jobs - a war correspondent, once of whose was an Englishman Roger Fenton; and a nurse - Russian Dasha Sevastopolskaya (Darja Lavrentjevna Mikhailova), and English Florence Nightingale, who came into prominence for contributions in the field of nursing during the war.
During the war anaethesia was firsly introdcuded and videly used by famous Russian surgeon Pirogov, who was in Sevastopol from the first day of the defence.
Leo Tolstoy wrote a few short sketches on the Siege of Sevastopol, collected in The Sevastopol Sketches. The stories detail the lives of the Russian soldiers and citizens in Sevastopol during the siege. Because of this work, Tolstoy has been called the world's first war correspondent.
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