The Role of Railway Communication in Providing Russian Military Support for Austria in May 1849
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2018.3-4.1.03Keywords:
Hungarian revolution and national liberation war of 1848–1849, Russian military assistance, railways, Nicolas I, Ivan Paskevich, Fedor Panyutin, Felix zu Schwarzenberg, Bernhard KobogaAbstract
The article, based on both published and archival sources, reconstructs the circumstances of the delivery of the Russian military division by railway from Krakow to Ungarisch Hradisch against the background of negotiations between the Russian and Austrian commandment, official documents, letters and memories of the campaigners about the events of May 1849.