Siege of Varna (1828)
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The siege of Varna took place during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828–1829. The Russian troops forced the Turkish garrison of Varna to capitulate after more than two-month siege.
Painting by Alexander Sauerweid (1836)
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral. He
Siege of Varna (1828)
…of the territory from the sea and supplying it with large artillery. Among the participants of naval siege was the future discoverer of Antarctica, Fabian von Bellingshausen (Faddey Bellingshausen). In an attempt to relieve the siege of Varna, Omer Vrioni brought an army of 20,000 but was successfully held off. At the Battle…
Portrait by an unknown artist
Coat of arms of the Bellingshausen family
Nadezdha, on which Bellingshausen served under captain Krusenstern during the first Russian circumnavigation.
Captain Faddey Bellingshausen with the Cross of the Order of St. Vladimir