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Kalmyks in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774: Tactical Structure and Organizational Supply Revisited

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article reviews events to have aimed at preparing Russia’s military for the war against Turkey in the late 1760s. The former included both general strategy development and involvement of Kalmyk troops.
Alexander V. Tsyuryumov
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Empire, Spectacle and the Patriot King: British Responses to Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article was submitted on 11.05.2016.Обращаясь к описаниям представлений, устраиваемых русскими царями, в трудах британских путешественников, автор показывает противоречивый характер британского взгляда на Российскую империю XVIII в.
Binney, M.
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The 10th accelerated wartime graduation of the Pavlovsk Military School in the faces and fates of the natives of the Ostsee provinces

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The approach of the 110th anniversary of the Brusilov breakthrough brings to mind the direct participants in the First World War – the lower ranks and representatives of the officer corps of the Russian Imperial Army, who demonstrated a wide ...
N. I. Svekolkin
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Dmitrii Alekseevich Miliutin – One of the Founders of the Russian Military Statistics [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
The article is dedicated to a prominent military figure, a scientist, a future reformer of the armed forces of the Russian Empire, who laid the theoretical foundations of a new military science – military statistics.
Belov, Kirill V.
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Three Publications about Archaeology of a Segment of the First World War's Forgotten Eastern Front

open access: yesArchaeologia Polona, 2021
While the horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front in Belgium and France are part of the European cultural memory, to some degree the much more extensive and mobile Eastern Front of the 1914–1918 conflict has become the forgotten front (Die ...
Paul Barford
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The army of the Russian Empire as a provider of multi-vector motivation in the conditions of the North Caucasus in the first half of the 19th century

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the course of the Caucasian War at its initial stage of development and the roles of the Russian imperial army, which the military had to perform in the conditions of the realities of the North
A. N. Kuvshinov
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Heirs to the Frontier: James Fenimore Cooper’s Influence on Tolstoy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, American author James Fenimore Cooper wrote a series of frontier novels called The Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1841), the most famous of which was The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
Gum, Christian
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Pacifism in Fin-de-Siècle Austria: The Politics and Limits of Peace Activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The late Habsburg Monarchy produced two of the most renowned peace activists of their day: Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Fried. In comparison to these two Nobel Peace laureates, the main association of Austro-pacifism – the Österreichische ...
Adler   +98 more
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Automobile transport and armored car military units of the Russian Imperial Army. 1896–1917s [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2019
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century a rapid process of preparation for the war of the countries of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente took place, which was accompanied by an the increase in the size of the army ...
M. S. Novikov
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