50 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 Vigla / Gramata 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-Bair is at the eastern boundary of Gurzuf above Kalitsa-Sheshma, the water source 2 versts from Gurzuf, and below the forest called Shiurmen. Gramata is the site of an inscribed stone. It is in the yaila, 3 hours from Gurzuf and 7 versts from Nikita. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The Stanford Library copy of Keppen's work was digitized by Google Books. fortification ruin travel time water yaila https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/422a68fdb72b0d71c3f5d4d0ee03d180.jpg 90ac58091d8dbe977289265fb203d77e 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 Source Maps Description An account of the resource These are the core historical maps which I have mined for spatial data. I have used them to help me locate places that no longer exist, as well as to think about how Crimean space was conceptualized - and how places were defined in relation to one another - in the 19th century. Historical Map Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 1 atlas ([48] leaves) : ill., 44 (i.e. 46) hand col. maps (1 folded) ; 54 x 39 cm. Repository Harvard Library Map Collection Permalink <a href="http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/006833924/catalog" target="_blank">HOLLIS 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 Vil'brekht's map of Tavrida Province Карта Таврической области Description An account of the resource Atlas sheet depicting Tavrida in 1792. At the time, the region was an oblast', rather than a guberniia. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vil'brekht Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rossiiskoi atlas iz soroka chetyrekh kart sostaiashchii i na sorok na dva namiestnichestva Imperiiu razdeliaiushchii [Atlas of Russia in 44 sheets depicting the 42 governments into which the Empire is divided] 1 atlas ([48] leaves) : ill., 44 (i.e. 46) hand col. maps (1 folded) ; 54 x 39 cm. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gornyi Institute, Sankt Peterburg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1792 Language A language of the resource Russian atlas cartouche Catherine II historical 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 Vineyards Description An account of the resource Vineyards are a dominant feature of the coastal region; in fact, they are a fundamental element of the region's spatial culture. Focusing on the vineyards provides us with much of the core "grammar" of the space we are examining: <ul> <li>Many of the vineyards throughout the coastal region are clustered (the few that aren't are perhaps the most interesting).</li> <li>The hachures are not detailed enough to allow us to make any robust observations about the relationship between vineyard locations and elevation other than to say that they do not follow ridge lines (not terribly surprising!).</li> <li>Many of the vineyards are transected by roads (bear in mind that these were mainly dirt and wide enough only for a single carriage), ravines, and rivers.</li> <li>All are confined within the thin tracery of lines meant to suggest a variegated terrain of ownership, value, varietal, etc.</li> <li>The seemingly haphazard shapes and sizes of the vineyards suggest that geography played a more important role in the demarcation of vineyard properties than survey lines or other forms of land administration.</li> <li>This map obscures any sense of change over time. Here we learn nothing about the genealogy of the lines demarcating one vineyard parcel from another, and we are left to wonder about the history of ownership and productivity. Happily, troves of archival documents allow us to overcome the interpretive constraints of this temporal flatness.</li> </ul> Neatline Display Neatline Exhibit 3 Neatline Record 8 agriculture land use wine 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 Viticulture in 1793 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 Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, : par la Hongrie, la Valachie et le Moldavie Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anatolii Demidov Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Denis Auguste Marie Raffet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ernest Bourdin et c,̊ 1840-1842 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1840 Language A language of the resource fre Zotero Title Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, : par la Hongrie, la Valachie et le Moldavie Item Type Book Author Anatolīĭ Demidov Contributor Denis Auguste Marie Raffet Place Paris Publisher Ernest Bourdin et c,̊ 1840-1842 Date 1840 Call Number DK509 Library Catalog Primo Language fre Short Title Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, Num Pages 4 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 Primer 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 What can I learn from this project that I can't learn from reading a book? 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 Primer 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 What is Crimea? 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 Primer 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 What is spatial history? Description An account of the resource Spatial history - and spatial narratives - result from the movement of human beings, goods, animals, water, trees, germs, etc., through space and over time. Imagine the accrual of urban commute patterns or the passage of travelers through immigration control at an international airport. They can occur at any scale, from a domestic interior to an entire continent, over any amount of time. The key is that in this context 1) location is more than backdrop, and 2) movement, precisely because it makes possible a whole range of interactions and exchanges, gives location meaning. To a certain extent, mapping history simply requires a new, more systematic attentiveness to the significance of location. What might we learn by unpacking the spatial structure of a region? What is revealed by its constituent parts, and by the connections that bind them together? 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 Primer 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 What is the difference between space and place? 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 Where have all the forests gone? Description An account of the resource Around Sevastopol there remained not one trace of forest. “The land belonging to the city was little by little given out in parcels to naval officers, who were obligated to plant gardens and plots of vegetables.”(Bronevskii, 16)