title: Battles and Military Art in the Caucasian Theatre of Operations
abstract: While secondary in importance and often overshadowed by the events in the Crimea, the Caucasus theatre of operations offers a wealth of knowledge to anyone studying the Crimean War from a military perspective. Eastern Anatolia was the only region where Russian forces proved decisively victorious and the Separate Corps of the Caucasus was the only part of the Russian army that successfully took the offensive and achieved important victories. In Nicholas I's army, where initiative was scarce and f