49 10 510 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/fe6a98b13a952b2b465d1fbcd6dfe63c.jpg ae60e8d3fec1b7e31c8311e2dc1a589d 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 Bossoli's Album Description An account of the resource The talents of Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884), a Swiss-born Italian artist who spent his youth in Odessa, attracted the attention of no less a figure than Count Mikhail Vorontsov, governor-general of New Russia and Bessarabia. Vorontsov commissed a series of views of Odessa, which Bossoli executed with success. Between 1840 and 1842 Bossoli lived on Vorontsov's estate at Alupka, using it as a base for exploring the peninsula in its entirety. He produced the album from which these watercolors are taken just as the Crimean War was breaking out in 1853. The timing was auspicious and Bossoli's publisher (Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen) was quite pleased with <a title="the view from London" href="/items/show/615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the resulting buzz</a>. Bossoli's album is a rarity: no more than 500 copies were printed in 1856. The album consisted of 52 watercolors and pastels. The images shown here were digitized and graciously made available by the Gordon Library at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. They are available here for educational, non-commercial purposes only. Interestingly enough, a bilingual edition (Russian and English) was reproduced in Kiev in 2003. The publication was made possible by 1) the Republican Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2) the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and 3) the vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The editors of the 2003 volume had high hopes that Crimea "should become an integral historical-cultural and natural preserve and prosper in the unity of nations living on its land." From their perspective, Bossoli's paintings "show the Crimea as an infinitely beautiful, well-developed, and happy land..."  See for yourself.<hr /> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context bossoli-paintings Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 of 34 leaves of colored plates Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 56 cm Repository Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute [<a href="http://gordonlibrary.wpi.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6520" target="_blank">go to the record</a>] 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 Valley of Usembasch Description An account of the resource View of the valley of Usembasch (sic.) with two men in the foreground and mountains and a waterfall in the background. Bossoli's note: "The view is taken from the path leading to Alupka, through the ridge of the Yaila Mountains." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carlo Bossoli, The beautiful scenery and chief places of interest throughout the Crimea from paintings (London: Day & Son, 1856) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlo Bossoli Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1840-1844 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Image courtesy of Preservation, Curation and Archives, Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute landscape lithograph mountains travel 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 Among the Ruins Description An account of the resource Ruins are among the most powerful elements of the built environment in Russia's southern empire. For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Tavrida itself was seen, from a certain perspective, as one sprawling, glorious ruin. The province was strewn with burial sites, churches, fortifications, and cities that had fallen into various states of disrepair, suffered catastrophic destruction, or otherwise been subsumed within deep layers of soil and rock.  The presence of architectural monuments, ruined and otherwise, played nearly as important a role in the toponymy of the region as geological and hydrographical features. Cliffs and streams, clearings and ancient walls and burial mounds: such features lent their names to the places they shaped. They did more than that. For much of the tsarist period, the surest way to navigate the rocky and tumultuous southern coast was by following rough directions and goat paths, calibrating one's course according to rocky outcroppings, views of the sea, and ruins. Claims to these ubiquitous and treacherous sites were empowering. Knowledge of them was valuable, even vital, to any claim to possession of the peninsula. This narration explores this idea in greater depth and maps the archaeological politics that helped define the significance of Crimea from a global - as well as an intensely local - perspective. Related galleries: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/19" target="_self">Uvarov's Antiquities</a>; <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/collections/show/25" target="_self">Keppen's Antiquities</a> Related article: Kelly O'Neill, "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/560940/pdf" title="link to pdf (log in to Project Muse via your library for full access)" target="_blank">Constructing Russian Identity in the Imperial Borderland: Architecture, Islam, and the Transformation of the Crimean Landscape</a>," Ab Imperio 2 (2006): 163-192.  <hr /> Narration fragment 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 Vantage points Description An account of the resource In 1837 the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, at the behest Count Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov (the governor-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia), published a volume called "On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the Tauride Mountains." The author, a man named Peter Keppen, dedicated his work - the "weak fruit of decades of research" - to the Romanov heir, Alexander Nikolaevich, who was about to make his first journey to Crimea.   Keppen had traveled through Crimea in 1819 but settled there permanently in 1827. In 1833 Vorontsov provided him with "the means to compose an archaeographical and topographical study" of southern Crimea and the 1837 publication was to be the first installment of such a work. In it he documents the ruins of churches, Greek and Armenian inscriptions, and Greek, Karaim, and Tatar tombs. But the lion's share of pages are devoted to the ruins of fortifications; (Greek and Genoese) fortifications that prove that "the inhabitants of Tauride mountains took every measure to protect themselves from the peoples of the steppe." “From the northern side," he wrote, "at every gorge/canyon that pierced the mountains there was some kind of fortification or observation post, a tower, etc., and on the coastal cliffs defenses were arranged in systematic order, so that from a given fortress it was often possible to maintain watch over several fortified positions.”(<a title="bibliographic citation" href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/beautiful_spaces/items/itemKey/AEB7WZTM" target="_blank">Keppen</a>, 2) 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 Dachas Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gazetteer Description An account of the resource In simplest terms, a dacha was a portion of land given out by the tsar. The apportioning of land to servitors and favorites was hardly an innovation, but over the course of the eighteenth century the dacha became ever more closely associated with the expansion of the empire. Early in the century, Peter I imbued the dacha with a distinctly strategic character, distributing grants both as a form of incentive and a coercive strategy for affecting the physical transformation of his new capital at St. Petersburg. Devoid of any associations with wellness, leisure, comfort, or domesticity – this came later in the nineteenth century – the earlier iteration of the dacha referred to a plot of uninhabited, unbuilt, uncultivated land located some distance away from the proprietor’s primary residence. A diligent proprietor might convert it into an usad'ba (country estate), with formal or mature gardens and permanent dwellings, or into an agriculturally-productive site – a farm, an orchard, a cultivated woodland. The essence of the dacha was that it implied a dynamic relationship between owner and property and the conversion of empty spaces into usable, definable places. Related narration: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/exhibits/show/dachageo" target="_self">Dacha Geography</a> <hr /> Dacha property Property Note Display Description 500 cultivable desiatinas, 656 not so much. Ownership Note Admiral Mordvinov Dacha Grant Year 1788 Attestation 1802 Dacha Reports 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 Verkhne Nikolaevskaia settler property 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 Dachas Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context gazetteer Description An account of the resource In simplest terms, a dacha was a portion of land given out by the tsar. The apportioning of land to servitors and favorites was hardly an innovation, but over the course of the eighteenth century the dacha became ever more closely associated with the expansion of the empire. Early in the century, Peter I imbued the dacha with a distinctly strategic character, distributing grants both as a form of incentive and a coercive strategy for affecting the physical transformation of his new capital at St. Petersburg. Devoid of any associations with wellness, leisure, comfort, or domesticity – this came later in the nineteenth century – the earlier iteration of the dacha referred to a plot of uninhabited, unbuilt, uncultivated land located some distance away from the proprietor’s primary residence. A diligent proprietor might convert it into an usad'ba (country estate), with formal or mature gardens and permanent dwellings, or into an agriculturally-productive site – a farm, an orchard, a cultivated woodland. The essence of the dacha was that it implied a dynamic relationship between owner and property and the conversion of empty spaces into usable, definable places. Related narration: <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/exhibits/show/dachageo" target="_self">Dacha Geography</a> <hr /> Dacha property Property Note Display Description According to the 1794 report, this dacha consisted of 2245 desiatinas near Aramkoy. Also gardens and meadows along the Kacha River near Ejz-Oba. Ownership Note Admiral Mordvinov; Commissar Faleev Dacha Grant Year 1787 Attestation 1794 Dacha Reports 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 Verkhniaia Mikhailovskaia gardens: private Kacha River patchwork settler property https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/6ccc3015e8b831bafe3f648f6598f75d.jpg 7caae6b4e6aea9a7706b03e2cc355580 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data color lithograph Repository wikicommons [Public Domain] Permalink https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6321592 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 View of Bakhchesaray Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlo Bossoli Bahcesaray monument mosque Tatar culture https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/6d81536b2d0be476bbd389052453e21c.jpg 3bc35e49a69b734e8995d1a68b28e7a1 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/6832e6b0270ffc559e018b849d58422e.jpg 5785b3fc05f910cf2bca96dd3e7e858f 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 Estates Description An account of the resource From the 1830s onward Crimea was a favored venue for prominent displays of wealth by powerful members of the ruling elite generally associated with the gulf-side imperial capital far away to the north. Rather than recreate the architecture of St. Petersburg on the Black Sea, many of those well-connected and well-to-do landowners made a conscious effort to accentuate the foreignness – perhaps even the exotic nature – of Crimea in the architecture of their estates and palaces. For some, the distinctiveness of the landscape was rooted in its Greek legacy. Russians and foreigners alike, inspired by the classical revival in architecture sweeping across Europe, pointed excitedly to the tangible residue of this legacy which suddenly placed Tavrida on the intellectual and cultural map of western civilization. Grecian elements therefore dominated many early nineteenth-century buildings. Other landowners – particularly the most wealthy and well-connected – played up the more exotic “Asiatic” legacy of Tavrida in their domestic landscapes. These nobles found it not just aesthetically pleasing but also empowering to incorporate elements of the local architectural tradition and natural landscape. In this they were no different than imperial elites elsewhere. In Russia, private residences were of particular importance to the articulation of the imperial presence in the borderland precisely because they were anything but private. Country houses and palaces were essentially public spaces, meant to attract the gaze of peers and peasants alike. The dignitaries, travelers and other visitors who penned detailed descriptions of Alupka, Gaspra, and Gurzuf inscribed these structures into the symbolic landscape of the province, but even on their own, the usad’by served as daily reminders of the reality of imperial authority to those who inhabited neighboring villages and worked in estate orchards and vineyards. Of course, not all landowners were wealthy enough to build palaces or manor houses that could accommodate such lavish public spectacles. The majority of those who did command that level of wealth were not provincial nobles, but members of the ruling elite who owned estates but neither registered in the Tavrida noble register nor otherwise participated in daily life in the province. The bulk of Tavrida’s registered nobles were not part of the ruling elite, nor were they distinguished for their wealth. In 1789 Governor Zhegulin pointed out to Potemkin that many of the (non-Tatar) officials in Tavrida were quite small-time Little Russian nobles or Polish szlachta who owned between five and thirty-five serfs. The low population density of the province together with the freedom of the native population from serfdom prevented landowners from accumulating wealth in the form of souls until well into the nineteenth century. However, most nobles (96% of non-Tatars and 88% of mirzas) in 1815 for example did own land from which they presumably drew sufficient income to maintain an honorable lifestyle. Of the 225 nobles registered between 1830 and 1853 for whom I have property data, 65% owned either arable or pasture land, and another 12% owned land in the form of orchards, gardens or vineyards. The remaining 23% owned houses and/or household servants and peasants, but did not mention landholding in their entries. Among ennobled mirzas, 96% owned land of some kind. Interestingly enough, they enjoyed average holdings three times larger than those of others, and a number of mirzas accumulated (or maintained) considerable annual incomes.<hr /> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Repository Slavic and East European Collections, The New York Public Library; New York Public Library Digital Collections (<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3459-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99" target="_blank">go to the record</a>) 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 View of the Imperial Palace of Orianda in Crimea Haupt Ansicht des kaiserlichen Schlosses Orianda in der Krimm. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Werke der höheren Baukunst für die Ausführung erfunden von Schinkel (<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-3459-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=72337480-c6ba-012f-e5e3-58d385a7bc34#page/1/mode/2up" target="_blank">view as a book</a>) (Potsdam, 1848) The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Created by Karl Friedrich Schinkel  Lithography by H. Mützel  Published by Ferd Riegel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1848 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Digital image courtesy of the New York Public Library Description An account of the resource Chromolithograph of the "Palace of Orianda" designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 – 1841). architecture landscape lithograph palace sea southern coast https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/9d96b0d15ae39bd4f6df8cf3244b029e.jpg fd4f762fae1ed4af289836d137541a8c https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/e889eb4ddc346230028d3b8109c729e4.jpg 3247b11b3aa31a1b07ff6c8479e47689 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 Uvarov's Antiquities Description An account of the resource This collection contains six images from the volume published by <a href="/items/show/567" target="_self">Count A. S. Uvarov</a> under the title<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/sobranie-kart-i-risunkov-k-izledovaniam-o-drevnostiakh-iuzhnoi-rossii-i-beregov#/?tab=about"><img style="float: right;" src="http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1507200&t=w" alt="" height="300" /></a> <a title="go to the Item" href="/items/show/585" target="_self">Collection of maps and drawings for the study of the antiquities of Southern Russia and the Shores of the Black Sea</a>. In part, this was the illustrated companion to Uvarov's <a title="bibliographic citation" href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/beautiful_spaces/items/itemKey/CFKJ3VJZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Recherches sur les antiquités de la Russie méridionale et des côtes de la mer Noire</a> - the written result of the expedition commissioned in 1847. Uvarov's charge came from Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, President of the Imperial Academy of Arts and of the newly-established (1846) <a title="read about the history of archaeological societies in Russia described in the Brokhaus-Efron Encyclopedia" href="https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%A1%D0%91%D0%95/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%89%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Imperial Archaeological Society</a>. He was to conduct research at any and all sites "mentioned by the ancient writers" from the mouth of the Danube to the mouth of the Phasis (Rioni) in Georgia, and to pay attention to the disposition of burial mounds throughout the region. Points 4 though 10 of the expedition instruction are an excellent thumbnail sketch of the significance of the Black Sea littoral from the vantage point of mid-19th century archaeologists (and their patrons): <blockquote>4. To determine the elevation of ancient places for which there are no good plans; 5. To study the remains and ruins to be found in the Crimean interior, notably along the Salgir, Belbek, and Mangush rivers; 6. Apart from antiquities of the classical period, to make inquiries into the antiquities of all time periods, including those of the Scythians, Byzantines, Tatars, Genoese, and Russians; 7. To collect all the ancient inscriptions, known or unknown, making copies or imprints of them; 8. To verify [Paul] DuBrux's claims about Nymphaea (Kara Bouroum); 9. To visit the museums at Nikolaief, Theodosie, and Odessa, and the antiquities found at the church at Taman; 10. Sepulchres of several Scythian kings are said to exist along the north coast of the Putrid Sea: to see whether these claims have any foundation...<a title="bibliographic citation" href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/beautiful_spaces/items/itemKey/CFKJ3VJZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a></blockquote> Uvarov did not fulfill the instruction. At least, not in print. His Recherches, published in 1855, opens with allusions to extenuating circumstances but also to his decision to exercise discretion, before going on to describe the course of the Dnepr from the famous rapids to Nicopolis (chapter 1), and Olbia and the mouth of the Bug River (chapter 2). Uvarov spent a good deal of time on excavations in Tavrida province in 1853-1854, but the geogrpahical spread of the maps and views included in the volume of illustrations, which was published four years earlier, suggests that Uvarov had in fact made his way through the entire littoral as it was mapped out for him in the expedition instruction. Perhaps, when it came down to it, he simply preferred digging to writing. Contents of the 1851 Collection: Dnepr River: 4 views, 1 map, 1 illustration of artifacts Ol'viia: 3 views, 2 maps, 11 illustrations Berezan: 1 map Koblevka:1 view, 1 map Odessa: 1 map Lusdorf: 1 map Dnestr (near Malakhovaia) 1 map Akkerman: 2 views, 1 illustration Ochakov: 1 illustration Kiliia: 1 illustration Kartal: 2 views, 1 map  Simferopol: 2 views  Bakla Kaia: 1 view Bakhchisarai: 2 views Chufut-Kale: 1 view, 1 illustration Tepekermen: 1 view Siuiren & Cherkes-Kermen: 1 illustration Mangup: 5 views, 2 illustrations Cherkes-Kermen: 3 views Khersones: 1 map, 2 illustrations Ai-Todor: 1 view Balaklava: 1 map Limena-Kale: 1 view Gurzuf: 1 view Eski-Krym: 2 views Temriuk: 1 view, 1 map Stantsiia Sennaia: 1 view Aftanizovka: 1 view Titarovka: 1 view Credit for the production of the illustrations goes not to Uvarov, but to the artist who travelled with him, M. Vebel'. The lithography is by François Joseph Dupressoir. V. Darleng printed the images.  <hr /> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context uvarov-antiquities Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data 1 of 69 plates Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 71 cm Repository Slavic and East European Collections, The New York Public Library; New York Public Library Digital Collections (<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-7abf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99" target="_blank">go to the record</a>) 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 View of the Nave in the Cave Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Aleksei Sergeevich Uvarov, Sobranie kart i risunkov k izledovaniam o drevnostiakh IUzhnnoi Rossii i beregov CHernago Moria (1851) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Drawn from nature by M. Vebel' Chromolithography by Semechkin Printed by V. Darleng Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1848-1851 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Digital image courtesy of the New York Public Library Description An account of the resource Chromolithograph of a "cave church" at Mangup. Churches and monasteries were often built into the sides of cliffs in the Crimean mountains. 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(3763464.29732969 5557883.88991366) altar architecture cave Greek church iconography lithograph Orthodoxy ruin https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/0744afb9f51e4867e8260b9fedbe01cd b68590cc22e4e82bfa278113b5943a78 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 Demidov's Voyage Illustrations Description An account of the resource Illustrations from a volume held at the John Hay Library, Brown University Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anatole de Demidoff Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale et la Crimee Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context demidov-voyage Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 56 cm Repository John Hay Library, Brown University 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 View of the Old Bazaar and of Mount Mithridates Description An account of the resource Panorama of a bazaar in Kerch. People sit or stand in groups; a man rides by on a horse; camels, oxen, dogs, chickens, ducks, and birds walk freely around the bazaar. 8 October 1837 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Denis Auguste Marie Raffet Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1837 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library lithograph livestock Tatar culture https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/16412f8369bcf7a4238879a0425df566.jpg b9553605febefa5552f2f5ef5e46a859 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 Demidov's Voyage Illustrations Description An account of the resource Illustrations from a volume held at the John Hay Library, Brown University Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anatole de Demidoff Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale et la Crimee Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context demidov-voyage Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 56 cm Repository John Hay Library, Brown University 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 View of the Tatar Village of Alushta Description An account of the resource Panorama of Alushta on Crimea's southern coast. In the foreground, a shepherd herds goats with the help of a few dogs. Crimean mountains (the high peak is Demirdzhi) and the Black Sea, complete with a vessel with furled sails, can be seen in the background. 23 October 1837 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Denis Auguste Marie Raffet Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1837 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library landscape lithograph livestock mountains southern coast 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 Vigla / Demir Khapu Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Petr Keppen Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Petr Keppen, O drevnostiakh IUzhnago Berega Kryma i Gor Tavricheskikh (Sankt Peterburg, 1837) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1837 Description An account of the resource Vigla is an urochishche near Partenit. Demir Khapu is a narrow place marked by a fountain between the mountain and forest. Demir Khapu to Gurzuf takes 3 hours. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Stanford Library copy of Keppen's work was digitized by Google Books. forest fortification fountain ruin travel time