160 years ago, on March 30, 1856, the final results of the Crimean war were summed up in Paris, in which Russia suffered a painful defeat Franz Rubo. Defense of Sevastopol (1854–1855). Panorama fragment, 1905 This war in Russia is called Crimean, and in European countries - sometimes also eastern. The fighting lasted two years, from the fall of 1853 to the fall of 1855, and cost the participating countries a total of a quarter to half a million people who died and died from wounds and diseases.