The Making of Legends
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Abstract Amid this destruction and death, however, the Crimean War is also notable because of the legends it has bequeathed and by which it is primarily remembered in the public domain: for the British, the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Thin Red Line; for the Russians, the myth of Sevastopol, “The City that Never Surrendered.” What is not recognized, however, is the key role Russell and Tolstoy played in providing the foundational material for these myths for their respective nations—the f