Legacy
Russell's dispatches via telegraph from the Crimea remain as his legacy, for the first time he brought the realities of war home to readers. This helped to diminish the distance between the home front and remote battle fields.
Russell's war reporting (often in semi-verbatim form) features prominently in Northern Irish poet Ciarán Carson's reconstruction of the Crimean War in Breaking News (2003).
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