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- Collection: Demidov's Voyage Illustrations
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View of Count Mikhail Vorontsov's palace in the distance with Crimean Tatar men gathered in a circle in the foreground. According to Demidov, the (coastal) region around Alupka, "washed in sunlight and bathed by the sea," was quite the fashionable…
Tags: castle, landscape, lithograph, sea, southern coast, Tatar culture
View of Crimean Tatar butcher and other merchants, smoking and talking in the street outside their stalls. Meat hangs from hooks at the butcher's stall and a pack of dogs sit opposite the merchants.
20 August 1837
20 August 1837
Tags: lithograph, Tatar culture
Interior view of a cafe. Men sit around a table cross-legged smoking pipes. They have taken off their shoes.
18 October 1837
18 October 1837
Tags: leisure, lithograph, Tatar culture
A Crimean Tatar family travels on horseback and on foot near Yalta. Women in burkas carry infants in their laps. Demidov writes that "throughout the summer season, the influx of wealthy people who inhabit the southern coast of Crimea offers farmers a…
Tags: Islam, lithograph, Tatar culture, travel
View of Russian soldiers resting at the side of the road. In peacetime, Russian soldiers were tasked with public works projects. This group was building the road between Yalta and Alupka.
12 August 1837
12 August 1837
Tags: lithograph, mountains, oxen, Russian military, tree-felling