Etna and Hallowe’en
Our journey to Erzurum and Kars has come to an end and given way to…
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The Grandmother of the Third Army
In the summer of 1876 the English language acquired a new insult. It had been…
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Three Garments and Half a Million Men
Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a war. The cardigan is named after the seventh…
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The Poet Was Not Impressed
Back to Erzurum, then, as Pushkin saw it. Or rather, as he failed to. Begin…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
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Kutuzov in the Harem
Catherine II — “Padishah of the Russians”, a title the Porte conceded in Article Thirteen…
