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A Swiss-born, Italian artist who spent much of his childhood in Odessa. Bossoli trained in Italy, but returned to Russia, spending two years exploring - and painting - Crimea.

Semen studied at the Azov Province Survey Expedition. One of his first military posts was as a surveyor in Tavrida province (with the rank of ensign). He participated in the storming of Anapa, and in the suppression of the "confederates" in...

Studied at the Academy of Arts and in the Shliakhta Infantry Corps. Worked in the Geography Department of the Academcy of Sciences 1780-1785 and then in the Geography Department of the Military-Topographical Depo and the Ministry of Education. He tau...

Major F. D. Revelioti owned one of the most extensive collections of land in the province in the early nineteenth century. Revelioti owned homes in Balaklava and Simferopol, as well as land at Foros, Kikeneiz, Simeiz, Alupka, Oreanda, Mukhalatka and ...

The son of the ambassador to France, Anatolii Nikolaevich Demidov organized and funded a scientific expedition through Southern Russia and Crimea by a group of 22 French scholars interested in geology and metallurgy in 1837. The result was a four-vol...

Owner of the estate of Koreiz. Married Prince Ivan Aleksandrovich Golitsyn.

Golitsyna died in 1837 in Simferopol, and is buried at Koreiz in the Voznesenskii church.

Married the highly influential Princess Anna Sergeevna Vsevolozhskaia, daughter of Lt. General S. V. Vsevolozhskii.

One of Alexander I’s closest advisors, Golitsyn accumulated an impressive record, serving as over-procurator of the Holy Synod and Minister of Spiritual Affairs and Education. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences, and a cavalier of every orde...