This diversity of character spreads over a country extending from the Great Wall of China on one side to the borders of Germany on the other; from the crimea in the South to the Polar Ocean in the far North.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
And although the only political outbreak of Nicholas's reign, the Petracheffsky conspiracy of 1849, was little more than a petty street riot, a storm of serious revolt against the tyranny of the Czar was long gathering, which would have burst upon his head after the disasters to his army in the crimea, had he survived them.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It was in the crimea that he learned to know and wonder over Byron.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi