Balaklava Gallery

Annual migration of a Tartar family, 1844. Creator: Unknown

Annual migration of a Tartar family, 1844. Group of Tatars on horseback travelling through the Crimean Peninsula: ...a Tartar household pursuing their precipitous way down the side of a torrent valley, on their march to Christmas quarters in the genial neighbourhood of Balaklava...
Few more picturesque sights could be imagined than those which the incidents of such a journey would furnish. The bivouac of a party of the travellers at night, is said to present a picture of barbarous interest. They are described as crouching in wild groups round wood fires, busily engaged in cooking their kukurutz, and, ever and anon, breaking the general silence by loud vociferations of joy, vengeance, or disaster'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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The 17th Lancers. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 1854, (1939)

The 17th Lancers. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 1854, (1939). Battle at Balaklava, Crimean War, Russia, 25 October 1854, with lines of the cavalry advancing straight into a line of cannon fire. Lord Raglan gave the order for the disastrous British cavalry charge, immortalised in Tennyson's poem, in which the Light Brigade suffered 40% casualties. From Battles for the Flag, a set of cards given away with British boys comic The Wizard. [D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, 1939]

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The Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War, October 25, 1854, (1893).Artist: R Dawson

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War, October 25, 1854, (1893). Lord Raglan gave the order for the disastrous British cavalry charge, immortalised in Tennyson's poem, in which the Light Brigade suffered 40% casualties. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie, (London, 1893)

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