Varna was surrounded by a high stone wall with towers; many trenches were dug in front of the ditch.

[1] On October 30, at four o’clock in the morning, the Russian troops advanced toward the city; the infantry moved in three squares, with the main one, commanded by Ungern himself, in the center, and the smaller ones, led by Generals V. V. Reiser and Prince of Bernburg, on the flanks.

He then ordered an assault; the troops advanced to the very counterscarp but were unable to descend into the ditch, lacking ladders and fascines.

[4] Then General Ungern, paying no attention to Prince Dolgoruky’s detachment, left him against the main army of the Turkish forces and led his troops along the coastal road to Balchik, Kavarna and Mangalia, to Izmail, where he arrived on November 23.

Ungern and Saltykov reported to Field Marshal Rumyantsev that due to the rains and snow, the flooding of bridges and roads, the shortage of fodder, and illness among their troops, a new campaign against Shumen was difficult.