31 10 510 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Antiquity Description An account of the resource Crimea was (and still is) uniquely studded with fallen slabs, old foundations, ancient walls, gravestones, and mounds of earth that have grown incrementally over the years to cover the bones of past lives. On my first visit to Sevastopol a friend explained that every good rain dislodged chards of pottery, the occasional coin, and other sundry treasures. And sure enough, when we went trekking in the mountains above Laspi later that week - keeping a sharp eye out for wild boar - I found three small bits of pottery, the edges worn smooth but the greens and blues of their surfaces still vivid. My friend chuckled and dismissed them as insignificant - the pieces dated to the fourteenth or maybe fifteenth century, after all - but I savored the extraordinary feeling of that small weight in my palm, sun-warm and heavy with historical memory. In 1837 the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg published a remarkable study On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the Tavridan Mountains. The book's author, Peter Keppen, spent 5 years living in Crimea while serving as assistant to the chief of silk production (shelkovodstvo). During that time he traveled almost obsessively, collecting material for his geographical and archaeological projects. In the dedication (addressed, of course, to Tsar Nicholas I), Keppen describes Crimea as "the most charming of all the countries prospering" under Romanov rule. His book lovingly documents the location, history, and status of inscribed stones, marble columns, churches, and tombstones, but the bulk of material details defensive towers and walls. Keppen saw Crimea - in antiquity - as a territory divided between a savage, predatory north and a luxuriously beautiful south hemmed in by the Tauride (or Tavridan) mountains on one side and the Black Sea on the other. The fortified line that separated one from the other was, to him, one of the two organizing features of Crimean space (or of its antique space anyway). The second feature was sedimentation. Keppen was acutely aware of the way in which the passage of time imprinted itself on the landscape. At one point he describes finding the remains of an ancient fortification with thick walls of "wild stone" on the heights of Ayudag. "And is it surprising?" Keppen asks. "One must remember that this place has not been inhabited since 1475. And since then the spring sun has warmed the mountain tops and new growth has sprung from the depths of the earth no fewer than 360 times. 360 times over autumn storms have torn the leaves from trees and ripped the grasses, each year creating a new layer to cover any traces of human existence!"(170) Keppen would tell you that to see Crimea, one had to dig.  This collection contains all of the sites (though not all of the individual stones!) discussed in On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast. It includes 4 mausoleums, 9 Greek churches, and 58 fortifications. Each and every one was a ruin even before Keppen laid eyes on it.  Related gallery: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/19" target="_self">Uvarov's Antiquities</a> Related narrations: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/37" target="_self">Among the Ruins</a> & <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/40" target="_self">A Monumental Inscription </a>Related source map: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/item/898" target="_blank">Keppen's Antiquities</a><hr /> Antiquity Building or item from the past. In most contexts, an antiquity belongs to the ancient, classical, or possibly medieval period. In Crimea and in the Russian south more broadly, archaeologists and collectors used the term to describe the material legacy of the ancient Greeks, Byzantines, Genoese, Karaims, Ottomans, and Crimean Tatars who inhabited the region prior to Russian conquest. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chufut-Kale Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(3779284.2744 5571961.1631) Description An account of the resource Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Petr Keppen, O drevnostiakh IUzhnago Berega Kryma i Gor Tavricheskikh (Sankt Peterburg, 1837) burial site Tatar culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Antiquity Description An account of the resource Crimea was (and still is) uniquely studded with fallen slabs, old foundations, ancient walls, gravestones, and mounds of earth that have grown incrementally over the years to cover the bones of past lives. On my first visit to Sevastopol a friend explained that every good rain dislodged chards of pottery, the occasional coin, and other sundry treasures. And sure enough, when we went trekking in the mountains above Laspi later that week - keeping a sharp eye out for wild boar - I found three small bits of pottery, the edges worn smooth but the greens and blues of their surfaces still vivid. My friend chuckled and dismissed them as insignificant - the pieces dated to the fourteenth or maybe fifteenth century, after all - but I savored the extraordinary feeling of that small weight in my palm, sun-warm and heavy with historical memory. In 1837 the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg published a remarkable study On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the Tavridan Mountains. The book's author, Peter Keppen, spent 5 years living in Crimea while serving as assistant to the chief of silk production (shelkovodstvo). During that time he traveled almost obsessively, collecting material for his geographical and archaeological projects. In the dedication (addressed, of course, to Tsar Nicholas I), Keppen describes Crimea as "the most charming of all the countries prospering" under Romanov rule. His book lovingly documents the location, history, and status of inscribed stones, marble columns, churches, and tombstones, but the bulk of material details defensive towers and walls. Keppen saw Crimea - in antiquity - as a territory divided between a savage, predatory north and a luxuriously beautiful south hemmed in by the Tauride (or Tavridan) mountains on one side and the Black Sea on the other. The fortified line that separated one from the other was, to him, one of the two organizing features of Crimean space (or of its antique space anyway). The second feature was sedimentation. Keppen was acutely aware of the way in which the passage of time imprinted itself on the landscape. At one point he describes finding the remains of an ancient fortification with thick walls of "wild stone" on the heights of Ayudag. "And is it surprising?" Keppen asks. "One must remember that this place has not been inhabited since 1475. And since then the spring sun has warmed the mountain tops and new growth has sprung from the depths of the earth no fewer than 360 times. 360 times over autumn storms have torn the leaves from trees and ripped the grasses, each year creating a new layer to cover any traces of human existence!"(170) Keppen would tell you that to see Crimea, one had to dig.  This collection contains all of the sites (though not all of the individual stones!) discussed in On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast. It includes 4 mausoleums, 9 Greek churches, and 58 fortifications. Each and every one was a ruin even before Keppen laid eyes on it.  Related gallery: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/19" target="_self">Uvarov's Antiquities</a> Related narrations: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/37" target="_self">Among the Ruins</a> & <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/40" target="_self">A Monumental Inscription </a>Related source map: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/item/898" target="_blank">Keppen's Antiquities</a><hr /> Antiquity Building or item from the past. In most contexts, an antiquity belongs to the ancient, classical, or possibly medieval period. In Crimea and in the Russian south more broadly, archaeologists and collectors used the term to describe the material legacy of the ancient Greeks, Byzantines, Genoese, Karaims, Ottomans, and Crimean Tatars who inhabited the region prior to Russian conquest. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eski Iurt Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(3760592.9021 5573667.9209) Description An account of the resource Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Petr Keppen, O drevnostiakh IUzhnago Berega Kryma i Gor Tavricheskikh (Sankt Peterburg, 1837) burial site Tatar culture Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Essential Published Sources Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bakhchesaraiskiia arabskiia i turetskiia nadpisi Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1849 Zotero Title Bakhchesarajskiia arabskiia i turetskiia nadpisi Item Type Journal Article Volume 2 Issue otdelenie vtoroe Pages 489-528 Publication Title Zapiski Odesskago Obshchestva Istorii i Drevnostej Date 1849 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Biographical Sketches Description An account of the resource Brief biographies of men and women whose names crop up in the sources, in this project, and in the book. Please note that the mirzas described in the "mirza sketches" are not included here.<hr /> Person An individual. Biographical Text Display Description Taranov (1759-1819) was the son of a poor noble from Kharkov. He earned the rank of lieutenant before retiring from military service in 1779. Beginning in 1784 he held a variety of appointed and elected posts in Tavrida, including provincial procurator and marshal of the nobility, and accumulated property valued at 150,000 rubles. His main estate and residence was at Bazarchik (near Simferopol’), where he was buried in his English garden. Bibliography Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar', vol.20: 800. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alexander Taranov-Belozerov settler noble https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/345afe8123e1c2a6d1ff6e39db82acae.png 6d8a60fe8a4bb70997d8bef16cfc15e6 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/de4a8e72a23c294e7af5ccdf669a1181.png 8c420a50dc13b9e6019f987f74b708d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Layers of the Vil'brekht Atlas Description An account of the resource Still images of the core layers of the Vil'brekht atlas sheet. Each feature in each layer has been digitized and provided with a basic symbology. (In GIS, a layer is a container for features of the same type (points, lines, polygons).) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context map-stills Original Map Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tavrida, district towns (1792) Description An account of the resource District towns for Dneprovsk and Melitopol' are not marked. Aleshki is on the map, but is shown as a village. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/02d4a5863d73b607f03c96dc48ffbc6b.png 928d9bbe8c75b0f32fb2103e4c4f77b6 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/e94f3e1b8ac71d3f701f9e520b0c28e3.png 2fefb66ec829be4c56ab3d4f0a00cee7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Layers of the Vil'brekht Atlas Description An account of the resource Still images of the core layers of the Vil'brekht atlas sheet. Each feature in each layer has been digitized and provided with a basic symbology. (In GIS, a layer is a container for features of the same type (points, lines, polygons).) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context map-stills Original Map Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tavrida, districts (1792) Description An account of the resource Mainland districts: Dneprovsk and Melitopol' Peninsular districts: Perekop, Feodosiia, SImferopol', Evpatoriia https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/dd41f207b70cf6ecf12fe3f82d76ee32.png ef615ebab5295f7c743a7fdde4ce869d https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/f2e1983ed504b4af0f477f9799bc83bc.png 988d89e823b7c1a4dd13bc01c3cae265 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/be4e7349e012149acee641c649b2ff13.png 84c20d62ce21df38d3cbaa78d0d33016 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Original Maps Description An account of the resource The "snapshots" collected here pair an insight or a question (sometimes both) with a map (or two). They occasionally address matters of idle curiosity but often point to the significance of map design and the challenges of mapping historical data. Original Map Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wrinkles in village geography Description An account of the resource Vil'brekht's map is the best cartographic source I have found for the early post-annexation years. It is quite unique in its almost single-minded devotion to mapping villages, and I took the opportunity to digitize every point on the map, along with the corresponding toponyms. How good a record of Tatar village geography does it provide? It is hard to say. I can say the the village names taken from the map and those listed in the 1805-1806 registers of inhabited villages (produced by the provincial government) are not a perfect match. 807 of the villages from the registers appear, so far as I can tell, on the map (a match rate of 67%). The "mislocation" is clear in this map pairing, where villages shown on the Vil'brekht map appear as translucent yellow points. The smaller green points represent villages described in the registers. The second image is a detail map of Feodosiia district, where the match rate was particularly bad. The third image suggests that there was a good deal of continuity (or simply better documentation) along the major rivers such as the Salgir. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/702f22a96bf919112e78978278d099d1.png 59e5fc763dbbb270bc81c9498cac0e41 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/66652ffc8c9fdf64f3851b86861c1fe7.png 98c62b6384d33c95c11eac04f21354eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Original Maps Description An account of the resource The "snapshots" collected here pair an insight or a question (sometimes both) with a map (or two). They occasionally address matters of idle curiosity but often point to the significance of map design and the challenges of mapping historical data. Original Map Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The expanding geography of settler dachas Description An account of the resource This pair of maps shows the locations of dachas granted to settlers as reported in 1794, and as reported in 1802. Only the properties whose locations I could establish with confidence are shown. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. F. Lashkov published the dacha registers in ITUAK [citation] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Biographical Sketches Description An account of the resource Brief biographies of men and women whose names crop up in the sources, in this project, and in the book. Please note that the mirzas described in the "mirza sketches" are not included here.<hr /> Person An individual. Birth Date 1765 Birthplace Saxony Death Date 1837 Biographical Text Display Description Heinrich Karl Ernst Köhler studied in Wittenburg and Leipzig. He came to St. Petersburg as a private tutor in 1790 and worked as a librarian at the Hermitage. He grew famous throughout Europe for his studies of classical art. A member of the Academy of Sciences, as well as the Academy of Arts, he died in the imperial capital. Bibliography Келер, Карл. / Русский биографический словарь. Т.8. Санкт Петербург. С.607-608) For a detailed discussion of his work in Crimea, see Тункина. С.65-84 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heinrich Karl Ernst Köhler Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spatial Grammar Description An account of the resource [HOLD FOR INTRO TEXT]<hr /> Administrative unit Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Districts of Tavrida Description An account of the resource The administrative geography of Tavrida Province was relatively stable. The original 6 uezds, or counties, were organized by decree in 1784. Four were on the peninsula (Simferopol. Evpatoriia, Perekop and Feodosiia); two were on the mainland (Dneprosk and Melitopol). In March 1838 the Imperial Senate announced the formation of Yalta uezd, which was created by carving the southern coastal territories away from Simferopol and Feodosiia [see <a href="http://www.nlr.ru/e-res/law_r/search.php?regim=4&page=196&part=404" target="_blank">PSZ vol.13, no.11,080</a>].