Descriptive Information

Title

Przemyśl : nach der Wiedereinnahme durch die verbündeten Truppen.

Call Number

DK4800.P7 P794 1900z

Identifier

ark:/88435/dc4m90f7299

Publisher

Przemyśl : [publisher not identified],

Language

German

Extent

1 photo album (22 unnumbered leaves) : all photographs ; 15 x 23 cm

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Official photo album from Przemyśl upon its recapture by Austrian/German troops. 54 photos, all captioned.

Note from vendor: Przemyśl is a city in South-east Poland. Between 1888 and 1914 Przemyśl was turned into a first-class fortress, the third-largest in Europe out of about 200 that were built in this period. Around the city, in a circle of circumference 45 km (28 mi), 44 forts of various sizes were built. The older fortifications were modernized to provide the fortress with an internal defense ring. The fortress was designed to accommodate 85,000 soldiers and 956 cannons of all sorts, although eventually 120,000 soldiers were garrisoned there. In August 1914, at the beginning of the World War I, Russian forces defeated Austro-Hungarian forces in the opening engagements and advanced rapidly into Galicia. The Przemyśl fortress fulfilled its mission very effectively, helping to stop a 300,000-strong Russian army advancing upon the Carpathian Passes and Kraków, the Lesse Poland regional capital. The first siege was lifted by a temporary Austro-Hungarian advance. However, the Russian army resumed its advance and initiated a second siege of the fortress of Przemyśl in October 1914. Thia time relief attempts were unsuccessful. Due to lack of food and exhaustion of its defenders, the fortress surrendered on March 22, 1915. The Russians captured 126,000 prisoners and 700 big guns. Before the surrender, the complete destruction of all fortifications was carried out. The Russians did not linger in Przemyśl . A renewed offensive by the Central Powers recaptured the destroyed fortress on June 3 1915. During the fighting around Przemyśl , both sides lost up to 115,000 killed, wounded, and missing.

Discovery Information

Subject

World War, 1914-1918—Poland—Przemyśl—Pictorial works

Twierdza Przemyśl (Przemyśl, Poland)—Pictorial works

Przemyśl (Poland)—History, Military—20th century—Pictorial works

Przemyśl (Poland)—Buildings, structures, etc—Pictorial works

Physical Characteristics

File Count

48

Institutional Information

Collection

Princeton Slavic Collections

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4a0ddad7-f1be-4fcc-ab97-140904810777/manifest

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