The family moved south to the safety of Crimea, believing that the revolution would soon fizzle out.
The A470 Crimea Pass between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Dolwyddelan was said to be impassable with cars turning back.
The Crimea Pass was said to be blocked by snow with reports of many vehicles running into problems.
The 17th was involved in the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea in 1854.
Dorothea Dix of the American Sanitary Commission modelled military hospitals in and around Washington, DC, on Florence Nightingale's hospitals in the Crimea.
Sold or given away in 1812 and sent to a church in Crimea, the paintings then disappeared for more than a century.
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In 1854, Florence Nightingale and a team of 38 nurses arrived in the Crimea to set up a hospital for British troops at Scutari.
With the monarch's approval, Potemkin colonised Crimea, did battle with the Ottoman empire and dreamed up an ambitious plan for reinstating a Christian emperor in Constantinople.
Tradition has it that Victorian Cross medals were cast out of the bronze of two cannons captured from the Russians at the siege of Sebastopol in the Crimea.
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In 1854, allied armies, including those of Britain and France, landed in the Crimea to oppose the Russians, who had sparked the Crimean War by invading Turkey in July 1853.
And if Russia has enough at stake in its relationship with America, it may even decide that the cost of fighting another war in Georgia or destabilising the Crimea is simply too high.
The second pavilion, 'The Calling', reflecting Florence's underlying belief in her call to God's service, recreates the climax of Nightingale's life: her experiences during the Crimean War in the years 1854 to 1856, when she led a Government-sponsored party of nurses to the military hospitals at Scutari on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and then to the Crimea itself, and in so doing became a national heroine.
After the commercial success of "That Most Important Thing: Love, " Mr. Zulawski was able to return to Poland, where in 1976 he began shooting the hallucinatory sci-fi epic "On the Silver Globe" ("Na srebrnym globie, " 1988), based on a trilogy of novels by his great-uncle, Jerzy Zulawski, and featuring landscapes shot in Mongolia and the Crimea and inspired cinematography and music by the director's frequent collaborators Jaroszewicz and Korzynski.
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