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                <text>On the heights of Ayudag are the remains of an ancient fortification with thick walls of "wild stone" but little else. "And is it surprising?" Keppen asks. "One must remember that this place has not been inhabited since 1475. And from that time no fewer than 360 times the spring sun has warmed the mountain tops and in the depths of the earth new growth has begun again. And 360 times autumn storms have torn the leaves from trees and ripped the grasses, each year creating a new layer to cover the traces of human bustle!"(170) Keppen scoured the mountain for the ruins of the monastery of Constantine and Elena, which Pallas had described, but his efforts were in vain. The Tatars who were with him showed him the place a white marble cross-inscribed pillar had stood before it was removed, 8 years earlier, to Gurzuf. (There had been a green marble column at the same spot; Prince Potemkin sent it to Kherson to be incorporated into a church there.)(171-172) </text>
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                  <text>&lt;p&gt;At the moment, this collection presents the contents of a list of sites abandoned in 1778 by various elements of the Christian population of the Crimean Khanate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between July and September 1778, a grand total of 31,098 people (half the Christian population of the khanate) deserted Crimea and moved to Russian territory on the shores of the Sea of Azov. Empress Catherine II and a handful of powerful men on the ground clearly engineered this relocation, which has been described as everything from an episode of deportation to one of voluntary migration.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catherine II's government spent 130,000 rubles in the process, but the results were priceless. The loss of thousands of Greeks, Georgians, and Armenians dealt a heavy blow to the khanate's economy (they tended lucrative gardens and orchards, cultivated vineyards, and dominated maritime trade through the Black Sea and beyond). Sahin Girey Khan's position was weakened beyond repair (already perceived as a lackey of the empress, his inability to halt the migration made clear Russia's lack of concern for the khan's ability to rule). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An anxious Ottoman government deployed a fleet to Aktiar (the future site of Sevastopol) in August, only to be repulsed. Negotiations for a new peace settlement between St. Petersburg and the Porte got underway soon thereafter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resulting Treaty of Ainali-Kavak secured the independent status of the khanate and required the removal of all Russian troops. This was no favor to the khan however. His position was tenuous at best; without the support of the empress's troops, he had precious little support. It wasn't long before the political situation in Crimea deteriorated, necessitating the return of Prince Potemkin and, by April 1783, the annexation of the khanate to Russia.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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                  <text>In simplest terms, a&amp;nbsp;dacha was a portion of land given out by the tsar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;i&gt;usad'ba&lt;/i&gt; (country estate), with formal or mature gardens and permanent dwellings, or into an agriculturally-productive site – a farm, an orchard, a cultivated woodland. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related narration&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/beautifulspaces/exhibits/show/dachageo" target="_self"&gt;Dacha Geography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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              <text>According to the 1794 report, this dacha consisted of 500 desiatinas.</text>
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              <text>Lt. Colonel Ivan Khristovskij</text>
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