title: The Toll of War on Crimea
abstract: This chapter chronicles the catastrophic consequences of Russian scorched earth policies and Allied economic warfare for Crimean Civilians. Russian forces scuttled merchant ships to block Allied access to the bays and burned food so that it would not fall into the hands of Allied invaders. Simultaneously Allies kidnapped Crimean children to pressure their parents to reveal community stores of grain, and set villages ablaze to pressure the Russian imperial government to concede defeat. By the end