In the Footsteps of Vladislav Klembovsky - Photographer of Crimean War Battlefields

In the early 1900s, Vladislav Klembovsky, then a colonel in the Russian army, took a series of photographs of the Crimean battlefields plus other locations, monuments and graves around Sevastopol. In 1904, an album was published by the Museum of the Defence of Sevastopol containing one hundred and nineteen of these images. This work, which came together with maps showing where and in which direction the pictures were taken, was a remarkable achievement for its time and still stands as a valuable record of the landscape of the fields of conflict of the war of 1854-56 before significant changes occurred. This publication is a tribute to Klembovsky’s album in that it compares the subjects of eighty-one of his images with the same scenes taken in the summers of 2011 and 2012. Information is also given on the career of Klembovsky and the historical importance of the sites he chose to photograph. This book is intended as an aid and guide to those who may walk the Crimean battlefields in the future