As we all know, the Crimean War was an important stage in the development of modern warfare, providing an excellent stage for the development of military academia and naval technology, as well as the development of troop strength and weapons. At a great cost of more than 500,000 troops and 800 million rubles, Tsarist Russia was unable to include Asia Minor in its own territory. So why did the Tsarist Emperor at that time have to take military adventures and make "bets" with many European countries?
This also begins with the then Emperor Nicholas I, who himself was not regarded as an emperor's heir, and he was always trained as a soldier in his infancy, at most as an important general. During the period of training, the instructors continued to use corporal punishment and humiliation to educate him, which led to his gradual development of a paranoid and irritable personality.
When Alexander I died, there was no successor to the throne, and his second brother gave up the right to inherit, Nicholas I stepped on the stage and became another emperor of Tsarist Russia.
Before Nicholas I succeeded to the throne, although Tsarist Russia signed agreements with Turkey and sudan, which guaranteed that the Russian navy could freely enter the Mediterranean Sea through important straits, Tsarist Russia also invested heavily in the Black Sea Fleet in order to expand the construction of sea power.
However, as the situation developed, Western European countries feared that the gradual expansion of Tsarist Russia threatened their position and wanted to limit the scope of action of the Russian Navy. At the urging of the British and French governments, most European countries recognized the Ottoman Empire's right to restrict the passage of other navies through the strait. This is tantamount to greatly limiting the scope of activities of the Tsarist Navy and confining the Tsarist Navy to the interior of the Black Sea.
The Black Sea Fleet had to be approved by the Ottoman Empire in order to enter the Mediterranean or into the ocean, and Tsarist Russia protested many times. After the protests were ineffective, the irritable Nicholas I decided to gain the "right of freedom" to cross the strait by force.
At first, at nikolai's behest, the Russian navy began to attack two provinces within the Turkish map. As for the actions of Tsarist Russia, both Britain and France, as well as Turkey involved, they all believed that this was only the early actions of Tsarist Russia, and the main purpose of Tsarist Russia was to make the Ottoman Empire history and expand its military presence in the Mediterranean.
The reason why Tsarist Russia dared to start this war was the "gamble" of Nicholas I, who believed that Britain and France would not go to war with Tsarist Russia for the sake of Asia Minor, so Turkey alone could not be its opponent.
But Nicholas I clearly underestimated the determination of Britain and France to stop Russian expansion. Britain and France first sent a combined fleet, dispatching 11 capital ships to cover turkey's military transport ships into the Black Sea. The smooth arrival of supplies also helped Turkey defeat the Russian offensive.
After that, Britain and France successively sent their own envoys to meet Nicholas I, intending to make Tsarist Russia abandon the attack through diplomatic negotiations, but Nicholas I refused. Subsequently, British troops landed in Turkey, and britain and France issued an ultimatum demanding that the Russian army withdraw immediately. After russia ignored the threat, French troops also landed in Turkey.
Soon after, Britain and France declared war on Tsarist Russia, and with the addition of the Anglo-French coalition and the military participation of other countries, Tsarist Russia returned home in the Crimean War, losing the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and losing a lot of interests, including territory.