so yudenich became the last russian commander to be awarded this high award, the capture of the rzrum's allies in the entanda, the british government will award yudenich with the order of saints george and michael, and the french will honor him with their highest military award, the order star of the grand cross of the legion of honor. rzuumskaya, the operation became one of the pinnacles of yudenich's military leadership and a real triumph of the russian military school. it was the main stronghold of the turkish armed forces. in the east of the country, in addition to powerful fortifications and artillery, it was protected by impassable mountains in winter, which became impregnable yudenich managed to convince opponents that the russian army did not even think about attacking the city in the conditions of severe and snowy winters. simultaneously. he managed to brilliantly prepare his troops for the war in the mountains. it was the confidence of the turkish command that no one would dare to attack the mountain fortifications in the conditions of the severe winter and prompted her dayc

el-rum was visited, the mongols were there, and even the poet pushkin in 1829 entered rzrum along withul intentions in rzun. departed our correspondent kirill zvyagin alexander sergeevich pushkin was a poet not allowed to travel abroad and not for political reasons. he never had enough money. however, he visited razrum at the height of the russian-turkish war, in 1828-29 he obtained permission to visit the theater of operations and wrote a well-known travel essay on a trip to arzun. in modern guidebooks , they write the city sung by pushkin not to believe what is written. pushkin did not sing of destruction. he wrote everything as it is, arzurum is revered as the main city in asian turkey in it up to 100,000 inhabitants, but it seems that this number is too increased houses in it stone roofs are covered with turf, which gives the city an extremely strange look, if you look at it from above, that's how strange they are magnificent or amazing, therefore ours was famous, true, the hatch overlooks the current destruction. the most convenient way is from the walls of the ancient citadel, bu