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Major Revelioti acquired Livadiia from his predecessor in the battalion, Colonel Lambros Katsionis, and sold it to Lev Severinovich Pototskii in 1834. The estate flourished under the stewardship of yet another member of the Vorontsov network. (Among…

Count Vorontsov’s mother-in-law, A. V. Branitskaia, purchased Massandra from Sof’ia Pototskaia and placed it in her son-in-law’s control until her grandson, for whom she intended the estate, reached maturity.

Largely by virtue of its productive…

Lev Aleksandrovich Naryshkin, a general and wealthy cousin of Mikhail Vorontsov, built the estate of Miskhor in the 1830s, gracing it with a park of cypress and cedars and a house known as “Little Alupka” in a nod to his kinsman. Naryshkin acquired…

Natal’ia Kirilovna Zagriazhskaia, the eldest daughter of the famous (former) Hetman of Ukraine K. G. Razumovskii, had owned Mukhalatka and passed it to her daughter, Kochubei's wife.

Major-General Sergei Ivanovich Mal’tsov included minarets in the design of this two-storey palace. As if the minarets were not curiosity enough, Mal'tsov built the palace of crystal.

Catherine II ennobled the Mal’tsovs, a merchant family, in 1775.…

Owned by General N. N. Raevksii, hero of the battle of Borodino. Located near Foros.