Around Sevastopol there remained not one trace of forest. “The land belonging to the city was little by little given out in parcels to naval officers, who were obligated to plant gardens and plots of vegetables.”(Bronevskii, 16)
Citation
“Where have all the forests gone?,” Beautiful Spaces, accessed March 5, 2026, https://beautifulspaces.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/item/897.