There is little patriotic feeling in "Sevastopol," and its success was artistic rather than political. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
Tolstoi mentions the same event in "Sevastopol," and his version of it would have pleased Owen Wister's Virginian more than Browning's. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
2) Like a previous comment mentioned, Sevastopol is still the home of Russia’s Black Fleet and a vital naval outlet to the Black Sea. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Strategic Significance] Reference
"No other modern book approaches 'Sevastopol' in the completeness and directness with which it unveils the realities of war. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare] Reference
Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol ', Pivdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv). From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Most of Sevastopol was destroyed by British-French bombardment. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: GHOSTS OF SEVASTOPOL] Reference
Sevastopol, at the tip of the Crimean Peninsula, is a traditionally. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
We ended up deciding to fly to Sevastopol and shoot whatever's available. From Wordnik.com. [Ukraine: Bureaucracy and Incompetence at Defense Ministry] Reference
On 9 May, 1944, the Soviet 2nd Guards Army recaptured Crimea and Sevastopol. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: GHOSTS OF SEVASTOPOL] Reference
The siege of Sevastopol, a heroic epic of the war on the eastern front, commenced. From Wordnik.com. [Nov. 15] Reference
You, who've made dumpsters your home from Sevastopol to Seattle, and now in this place. From Wordnik.com. [Godot Finally Shows!] Reference
The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. From Wordnik.com. [Rudy Campaign Team Deals With Its First Serious Negative Press] Reference
BALAKLAVA, a village in the Crimea, east of Sevastopol, famous for a battle in the Crimean War. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
By May 9 they had taken Sevastopol, and the Crimea, like Ukraine, was cleared of invading forces. From Wordnik.com. [1944] Reference
It is followed by a section showing scenes of London, Coventry, Rotterdam and Sevastopol in ruins. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Byzantine forces were severely defeated by the Arabs in the Battle of Sevastopol in the Crimea. From Wordnik.com. [692] Reference
In response, Ukrainian armed forces based in the Crimea outside Sevastopol would likely counterattack. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Next Target] Reference
Sevastopol, and without hesitation I declare that at Vicksburg to have been the more difficult of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As a result, he said recently in Sevastopol that President Viktor Yushchenko calls UNA-UNSO soldier heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's double standard in history] Reference
Many of the Tsarist army soldiers who fought and fell at Sevastopol were, in fact, Ukrainians and not Russians. From Wordnik.com. [Will There Be a Second Crimean War?] Reference
Messrs. Cobden and Co., yclept the Peace Society, upon which such a bloody comment was enacted before Sevastopol. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Ukraine threatens to oust Russia's Sevastopol-based Black Sea Fleet, or shorten its lease there that runs to 2017. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: U.S. and Russia Lock Horns] Reference
Russia is very unlikely to relinquish its Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2017 when its lease expires. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Avoid a Second Crimean War] Reference
Alma and Inkerman, of Balaclava and Sevastopol, marched through the roaring citizen crowd and formed up in the Park. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
At least the Soviet attacks in the Crimea had given Sevastopol breathing space and drawn three German divisions down there. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Sevastopol, not having been there at all, but served all the campaign delivering paltry provisions, which I look on as a degradation. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
The first Napoleon learned this at Eylau, -- the third Napoleon learned it at Sevastopol; yet in daily life they are slavish beyond belief. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
I suppose the fact was that Sevastopol had cost him a deal of labour, dragging it half across Ethiopia, and here he was literally hoist with his own petard. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
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