pavel dolgorukov was not a military man further on the galipali peninsula, so he settled in constantinople, but in soul he was with the army. and at every opportunity he went to the location of troops from the black sea to the mediterranean, you need to pass the bosform sea of marmara and enter the dardanelles. the northern european coast of this strait and there is a long narrow galibali peninsula. so from this side, europe and there already asia, when general kutepov, the commander of the russian corps, saw a valley overgrown with bushes, where he was to to accommodate the troops of the white army, who fled from the caucasus from the crimea. he asked the french officer who accompanied him. that's all the frenchman answered on the eve of the cold and rainy winter here in the twenty, five thousandth army. families together. another 300 children. the orphans found themselves homeless without food without clothes without money on the first night in a piercing wind and no one slept. only the next day the french allies brought tents only thanks to iron discipline. a month later it got bett