The thunderstorm of the Caucasus. Life and exploits of General Baklanov
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The commander of the Don Cossack Army, Lieutenant General Yakov Petrovich Baklanov (1808-1873), was one of the famous heroes of the Caucasian War of 1817-1864. Legends went about the immense courage and dies of Baklanov. He personally drove the Cossack regiments and hundreds into attacks, participated in ambushes and shootings, attacks, the construction of fortifications, bridges and roads. Possessing great physical strength, he invariably came out the winner from hand -to -hand fights. Having received a regiment of Dontsov under the command, who was in desperately poor condition, he soon made him exemplary, and from the timid of the linear defense of his predecessors, he moved to the most decisive offensive action behind the line. Baklanov soon becomes a thunderstorm of the nemeral "highlanders, who considered Blad to be loaded with the devil himself and called him Dajal. The book of the historian of the Cossacks A.V. Venkova introduces the reader to the life of this legendary hero
Author:
Author:Venkov A.V.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Series:
Series: Military Historical Library
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4484-0484-9
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