Strelets – 051 – Crimean War Russian General Staff and Hospital

Description:

Crimean War Russian General Staff and Hospital

This is one of the famous Strelets big boxes, composed of both new figures and figures issued in other boxes.

This box contains 18 mounted figures in 18 poses , and horses come in 6 poses, and 98 foot figures in 98 different poses plus 2 guns.

In addition to the 36 figures new in the set, this box contains:

Strelets – 032 – Crimean War Russian Naval Artillery
Strelets – 039 – Crimean War Russian Grenadiers
Strelets – 026 – Crimean War Russian Terek Cossacks

In the new figures, together with some hospital, religious and especial figures we can found a number of relevant figures of the Russian army:

• Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787-1869) – Commander-in-chief of all Russian land and sea forces during the Crimean War, replaced in 1855.
• Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1795-1861) – Commander-in-chief.
• Vladimir Alexseyevich Kornilov (1806-1854) – Vice-admiral, death at the Malakoff redoubt.
• Pavel Nakhimov (1820-1855) – Admiral, death in action in June 1855.
• Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin (1809-1855) – Rear-admiral.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (1818-1884) – Engineer.
• Dasha Alexsandrovna – Dedicated herself to caring for wounded soldiers.
• Count Tolstoy (1828-1910) – Commanded a battery in Sevastopol (and the famous later writer).

For out personal taste, the hospital and religious figures are a great addition and nicely done, as most of the new figures included in this set are.