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- Collection: Uvarov's Antiquities
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Chromolithograph. The French title of this lithograph ("view of the church at the foot of the mountain") makes no reference to the fact that this is, according to the Russian-language title, an interior view of the lower church. In Crimea, the most…
Tags: architecture, Greek church, lithograph, Orthodoxy, ruin
Chromolithograph of a crypt of an unknown khan. French title: "Ruins of the sepulchral cave of the khans".
Tags: burial site, crypt, lithograph, monument, ruin, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph of a mosque built by Sultan Baybars (d. 1277) of Egypt. Baybars, one of the great Mamluk sultans, was likely a Kipchak Turk born in the Pontic steppe. He maintained close diplomatic ties with the Kipchak Khanate (also known as the…
Tags: architecture, burial site, gravestones, Islam, lithograph, mosque, ruin, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph of the mausoleum of the founder of the Giray dynasty and his successor, Mengli Giray (d.1515), who commissioned the building.Examine the image in more detail here.
Tags: lithograph, monument, ruin, Tatar culture
Chromolithograph of a "cave church" at Mangup. Churches and monasteries were often built into the sides of cliffs in the Crimean mountains.
Tags: altar, architecture, cave, Greek church, iconography, lithograph, Orthodoxy, ruin