About the book: 2020 / Crimean, or Eastern, War of 1853–1856. was fought by the combined forces of Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia against the Russian Empire in many theaters of combat. The Solovetsky Islands, Kola, Bomarsund and Sveaborg, Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka and the main Russian ports on the Black Sea - both Odessa and Sevastopol - were attacked by the allies. But unexpectedly, the ships of the Russian Baltic Fleet, who somehow ended up in the 19th century, came to the aid of the Russian Empire. With their help, the joint Anglo-French squadron was defeated in the Baltic, besieged Sevastopol was released on the Black Sea, and Allied ships were driven away from the Russian shores. The Russians forced Austria to withdraw troops from the Danube principalities it occupied. The time has come to move the army to the borders of the Ottoman Empire. And there, approaching the walls of ancient Constantinople, sign a peace treaty, which, as Tsar Nicholas I assumed, would put an end to the long Russian-Turkish confrontation.