In the second period of his career, Willewalde turned his attention to the Polish November uprising of 1831 (painting "Grokhovo" and "Ostrolenka"), the Hungarian revolution of 1848 (painting "Surrender of Görgey at Világos", "Advance into Kronstadt" and others), the Crimean War ("Siege of Sevastopol"), and the Russian conquest of the Caucasus ("Bashkadyklar", "Battle of Kars", "Shamil at Gunib", and "Surrender of Shamil").