The Great Game
Greece: autonomy recognized by Ottomans Catherine the Great and military alliance with Serbia Russian partition plans (1852) war dead Western powers unwilling to help
Greek independence: Russia’s part in see also Nationalism
‘Greek-Slavonic Legion’: in the Russian army
Greeks: nationalism new settlers in the Crimea in Odessa in Thessaly and Epirus
Gregory XVI, Pope
Griffith, Lt (23rd (Royal Welsh) Fuslrs), storming the Redan
Grimm, Baron Friedrich, Catherine the Great and
Guizot, François
gunboat diplomacy: British French
Gurowski, Adam, Count, Russland und die Zivilisation
Hagia Sophia mosque (Constantinople) Byzantine mozaics discovered significance for Russia
Hall, Dr John (Principal medical officer), cautions against chloroform use
Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl
Hatt-i Hümayun decree (1856) drafted by Stratford Canning and Thouvenal violent opposition to
Hatt-i Sharif (1839)
Hauterive, Alexandre’
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, English Notebooks
Henri Quatre (French battleship), lost in hurricane (1854)
Herald (newspaper)
Herat (Afghanistan)
Herbé, Capt Jean-Jules: abandoned horses and mules assault on the Malakhov Bastion letter from hospital letters home wounded at Chernaia river
Herbert, Elizabeth, Baroness (wife of Sidney Herbert)
Herbert, General George, Earl of Pembroke
Herbert, Pvt Harry (5th Dragoons)
Herbert, Sidney (Secretary of State for War) bronze statue added to Guards’ Memorial
Herzegovina pan-Slav movement and promised to Austria-Hungary revolts by Christians
Herzen, Alexander, publishes ‘Tolstoy’s’ song
Heytesbury, William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
Higginson, Capt (later Gen) George (Grenadier Gds), at Inkerman
Holy Alliance (Russia, Austria & Prussia)
Holy Land: an extension of Holy Russia French dispute with Russia pilgrims rivalry between Catholic and Orthodox Christians Tsar Nicholas I and
Holy Places: commencement of war and Paris Peace Congress (1856) and religious rights for Catholics religious rights for Orthodox Christians
Hornby, Lady Emily
Howlett, Robert, photographs of wounded soldiers
Hübner, Joseph Alexander, Baron
Hudson, Sir James
Hughes, Thomas: Tom Brown at Oxford Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Hungarian army, Polish officers
Hungarians, in Kars
Hungary, 1848 – 49 revolution
Hyde, Pvt Edward, at Inkerman
Hyder Pasha Hospital
Ia
Ibrahim Pasha (son of Mehmet Ali), in Syria
Ignat’ev, Nikolai: Eastern Question solution encourages Serbs to expect Russian help pan-Slavism of San Stefano Treaty strategic memorandum on Central Asia and India Tsar’s envoy in Constantinople
Illustrated London News (journal)
l’Impartial (newspaper)
India, perceived Russian threat
India, Great Britain and Russia (pamphlet)
Indian Army see British Indian Army
Indian Mutiny (1857)
Induno, Gerolamo, Crimean War paintings
Ingush
Inkerman, reserve hospital
Inkerman, battle of (1854) arguments over whom to blame for defeat Sandbag Battery a ‘soldiers battle’ see also Mount Inkerman (Little Inkerman)
Inkerman Heights
Innokentii, Orthodox Archbishop: allied invasion a holy war Christianizing the Crimea
Ireland, lives lost
Islam: executions of Muslims who become Christians Islamic fundamentalists in Shamil’s movement Mehmet Ali’s Islamist aspirations opposition to Tanzimat reforms Western romantic ideas of see also Muslims
Istomin, Admiral Vladimir, commemoration
Italians, in Kars
Italy Czartoryski’s plan for little to commemorate Crimea Napoleon III’s plans Palmerston’s plans for Risorgimento unification union of Lombardy and Sardinia
janizaries
Japy, Frederic (3rd Zouave Regt), letter home
Jemaleddin (son of Imam Shamil), exchanged for Georgian princesses
Jerusalem: Easter 1846 riot fights between Greeks and Armenians Franciscan printing press (Austrian) religious rivalries Russian Ecclesiastical Mission
jihad: called for against Russians (1853) declared by Ottomans after Navarino (1827) General Yusuf’s incentive
jingoism, in Britain
Jomini, Antoine-Henri, Baron
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria
Journal des débats
Kacha, river, Russian dressing stations
Kadikoi (British base) traders and sutlers
Kalafat, Omer Pasha crosses the Danube
Kalamita Bay
Kamchatka Lunette (Sevastopol) see Mamelon
Kamiesh, French supply base
Kangaroo (troop transort): carries supplies to Shamil used for cholera victims
Kapodistrias, Ioannis
Kars: cession of demanded by Stalin relieving force under Omer Pasha relieving force under Selim Pasha Russian bargaining card at Paris (1856) Russian siege
Kaufman, Konstantin P., Governor-General of Turkestan
Kazan (Mongol khanate)
Kaznacheev, Nikolai Ivanovich, governor of Evpatoria
Kerch: allied raid aborted (April 1855) allied raid (May 1855)
Khanum, Fatima Khanum
Kharkov, Sevastopol wounded
Kherson (new city)
Khersoneses (ancient Greek city) Church of St Vladimir desecrated by French
Khiva khanate
Khlopotina, Elizaveta (nurse)
Khomyakov, Alexei (Slavophile poet)
Khrulev, Lt-Gen Stepan: Evpatoria attack fails (1855) suicidal attack suggestion
Khrushchev, Nikita, transfers Crimea to Ukraine
Kiev, defence of
Kievan Rus’
Kinglake, Alexander on declaring war embarcation for Crimea
Kingscote, Capt. (later Maj & Col Sir) Nigel (Scots Fuslr Gds & ADC): letters from Varna outraged by other officers letters
Kingsley, Charles: Two Years Ago Westward Ho!
Kingsley, Henry, Ravenshoe
Kiriakov, Lt-Gen V. I. (17th Division): at Alma at Inkerman
Kiselev, Gen Pavel (Minister of State Domains)
Klemm, Teofil (Russian soldier)
Kokand khanate
Kondratov, Ivan (Russian infantryman), dines on French and British food
Korda, Sir Alexander, Lady Hamilton (film)
Kornilov, Admiral Vladimir defence of Sevastopol death of commemoration