Category: This entry was posted in History, Russia by MSW. Bookmark the permalink.

Count Pavel Tsitsianov. This painting once decorated the Abbas Mirza’s palace. Depicted on this huge canvas is the defeat of the Russian Trinity Infantry Regiment in the battle near Sultanabad, which took place on 13 February 1812. Persian soldiers wearing European uniforms and bearing Persian banners, on which a lion holds a sabre in its […]

“Novgorod Marketplace”, a painting by Appolinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933). Slovensk (Novgovord) in the 1st century AD (reconstruction). The settlement was composed of wooden houses. For nearly 70 years the medieval site of Novgorod in the former Soviet Union has been excavated, the largest excavation ever undertaken in Russia. The scale of work undertaken at the site, […]

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a polar explorer and commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. During the Russian Civil War, he established an anti-communist government in Siberia—later the Provisional All-Russian Government—and was recognised as the […]

Photo of Bogdan Vasko, commander of the Red Army detachment near Ufa, 1918. Kolchak’s Army Offensive The Whites might, on the other hand, have had a much more cautious policy, holding the Urals line and equipping their army behind it. This made sense in purely military terms; it is what Stepanov and Knox wanted. Kolchak […]