This is an Imperial Russia award from Crimean war period. It looks like its noncombatant one - dark bronze. There were 1465700 light bronze medals for combatants and 150 000 dark bronze medals for ...

In 1855, the British government ordered a report to be produced on the conditions wounded soldiers faced in the Crimean war. Nightingale would walk the hospital at night, checking on the soldiers ...

This map shows the area of conflict during the Crimean War. In crossing the Danube River on the western edge of the Black Sea and into Ottoman territory, the Russians had designs on moving south and ...