place
Plevna
also: Плевна, Pleven
Plevna (modern Pleven, Bulgaria), site of a prolonged and costly 1877 siege during the Russo-Turkish War; memorial services for the Russian dead there were still being held years afterward in provincial towns.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §47 fallen at Plevna
Plevna (Pleven), the Bulgarian town where Russian and Romanian forces besieged an Ottoman garrison in 1877 during the Russo-Turkish War, at heavy cost -- a memorial service for the fallen was recent, real news at the story's 1880 setting.
- This and That §25 Plevna
Plevna (modern Pleven, Bulgaria), site of a prolonged, costly 1877 siege during the Russo-Turkish War -- the campaign in which the officer loses his second leg.
- The Kiss §7 Plevna
The siege of Plevna (1877, Russo-Turkish War) was one of the costliest and most storied engagements of the campaign; nine years later, veteran commanders of that war were still identifiable by name and reputation, which is why the officers try (and fail) to place this von Rabbeck as a possible veteran commander before concluding he is unrelated to the man they're thinking of.