At the walls of motionless China. Diary of a Russian correspondent

Readers are offered a unique book of notes by the Russian correspondent Dmitry Grigoryevich Yangchevetsky (1873-1938), an eyewitness of the events of the uprising of the eueli (boxing uprising) in China in 1900-1901. The author clearly and emotionally describes the military operations of the Russian and allied troops, saving Europeans from the hearth of the uprising of boxers.
The reader is faced with the “Living pictures of the storm of the Fortes Taku, the expedition of Admiral Seymour, the epic of the Tianzin siege, the connected campaign of the international troops on Beijing, which ended in occupation by the capital of Bogdykhan, during the assault of which the author was a conductor of the Russian advanced detachment ". After the publication of this book, Yangchevetsky, on the recommendation of the President of France, was elected a member of the French Literary Academy