M. O. Cullet, Un régiment de ligne pendant la guerre d’orient: Notes et souvenirs d’un officier d’infanterie 1854–1855–1856 (Lyon, 1894), pp. 199–203; Seaton, The Crimean War, p. 202; D. Stolypin, Iz lichnyh vospominanii o krymskoi voineiozemledel’cheskih poryadkakh (Moscow, 1874), pp. 12–16; I. Krasovskii, Iz vospominanii o voine 1853–56 (Moscow, 1874); P. Jaeger, Le mura di Sebastopoli: Gli italiani in Crimea 1855–56 (Milan, 1991), pp. 306–9.
18
Cullet, Un régiment, pp. 207–8.
19
Seaton, The Crimean War, p. 205; J. Herbé, Français et russes en Crimée: Lettres d’un officier français à sa famille pendant la campagne d’Orient (Paris, 1892), p. 318.
20
Jaeger, Le mura di Sebastopoli, p. 315; Loizillon, La Campagne de Crimée, pp. 168–70; M. Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (London, 2005), p. 142; T. Buzzard, With the Turkish Army in the Crimea and Asia Minor (London, 1915), p. 145.
21
Seaton, The Crimean War, pp. 206–7.
22
Herbé, Français et russes en Crimée, p. 321; N. Berg, Zapiski ob osade Sevastopolia, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1858), vol. 2, p. 1.
23
Vrochenskii, Sevastopol’skii razgrom, p. 201.
24
H. Small, The Crimean War: Queen Victoria’s War with the Russian Tsars (Stroud, 2007), pp. 169–70; Ershov, Sevastopol’skie vospominaniia, pp. 157, 242–3; Cullet, Un régiment, p. 220.
25
Za mnogo let: Zapiski (vospominaniia) neizvestnogo 1844–1874 gg. (St Petersburg, 1897), pp. 90–91; Giubbenet, Ocherk, p. 148.
26
RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5758, 1. 57; Vrochenskii, Sevastopol’skii razgrom, pp. 213–20; Tarle, Krymskaia voina, vol. 2, pp. 360–61. On Russian intelligence from allied prisoners, see RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5687, 1. 7.
27
A. Niel, Siège de Sébastopol: Journal des opérations du génie (Paris, 1858), pp. 492–502; E. Perret, Les Français en orient: Récits de Crimée 1854–1856 (Paris, 1889), pp. 377–9; Herbé, Français et russes en Crimée, pp. 328–9; V. Liaskoronskii, Vospominaniia Prokofiia Antonovicha Podpalova (Kiev, 1904), pp. 19–20; Tolstoy’s Letters, ed. and trans. by R. F. Christian, 2 vols. (London, 1978), vol. 1, p. 52.
28
RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5758, 11. 58–60; A. Viazmitinov, ‘Sevastopol’ ot 21 marta po 28 avgusta 1855 goda’, Russkaia starina, 34 (1882), pp. 55–6; Ershov, Sevastopol’skie vospominaniia, pp. 277–9.
29
J. Spilsbury, The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War (London, 2005), p. 303.
30
Spilsbury, Thin Red Line, p. 304; C. Campbell, Letters from Camp to His Relatives during the Siege of Sebastopol (London, 1894), pp. 316–17; Clifford, Letters and Sketches, pp. 257–8.
31
RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5758, 1. 65.
32
M. Bogdanovich, Vostochnaia voina 1853–1856, 4 vols. (St Petersburg, 1876), vol. 4, p. 127.
33
RGVIA, f. 846, op. 16, d. 5758, 1. 68; T. Tolycheva, Rasskazy starushki ob osade Sevastopolia (Moscow, 1881), pp. 87–90.
34
Tolstoy’s Letters, vol. 1, p. 52.
35
Sobranie pisem sester Krestovozdvizhenskoi obshchiny popecheniia o ranenykh (St Petersburg, 1855), pp. 74, 81–2.
36
Giubbenet, Ocherk, pp. 19, 152–3; The Times, 27 Sept. 1855.
37
Boniface, Campagnes de Crimée, pp. 295–6; Buzzard, With the Turkish Army, p. 193.
38
E. Vanson, Crimée, Italie, Mexique: Lettres de campagnes 1854–1867 (Paris, 1905), pp. 154, 161; NAM 2005–07–719 (Golaphy letter, 22 Sept. 1855).
39
WO 28/126; NAM 6807–379/4 (Panmure to Codrington, 9 Nov. 1855).
40
S. Tatishchev, Imperator Aleksandr II: Ego zhizn’ i tsarstvovanie, 2 vols. (St Petersburg, 1903), vol. 1, pp. 161–3.
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