Main Street in Bakhchisaray (Still Image)

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Title:

Main Street in Bakhchisaray

Description:

View of main street in Bakhchisaray. Crimean Tatars in ox-driven wagons ride down the street while others walk or sit on the side of the street. Demidov notes that this main street is "lined with shops selling things Tatar have produced for two centuries," including "pottery, cutlery, slippers, purses, belts," etc.

19 August 1837

Creator:

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Source:

Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)

Date:

1837

Rights:

Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

Physical Dimensions:

56 cm

Repository:

John Hay Library, Brown University

Citation

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, “Main Street in Bakhchisaray,” Beautiful Spaces, accessed October 27, 2026, https://beautifulspaces.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/item/668.