1 10 20 Person An individual. Occupation translator; vice-governor Biographical Text Display Description Borzenko was a translator in the office of Prince M. S. Vorontsov. Later he served as vice-governor of Kutaisi. Borzenko was a corresponding member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities. Vorontsov charged Borzenko with translating all of the Arabic and Ottoman inscriptions found at the khan's palace, mosque, and cemetery in Bahcesaray. He translated 125 between 1836 and 1840. 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 A. Borzenko https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/850776ecb46e920151224c094630a83f.jpg 2a875a28963ffa8368bad32c8ea26760 Person An individual. Birth Date 1745 Birthplace Burnakovo, Iaroslav Province Death Date 1817 Occupation Naval Commander (Russian Black Sea Fleet) Biographical Text Display Description Preeminent naval commander of the 18th century. Never lost a battle, and never lost a ship. Ushakov joined the navy at age 15 and eventually shifted from the Baltic to the Azov and Black Sea fleets. After the annexation of Crimea in 1783 he oversaw the construction of the admiralty and port of Sevastopol, and commanded the Black Sea Fleet until he dismissal from service in 1801. 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 Admiral Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/84d2445d927fee88286cc1a74ae6e96a.jpg a04c4d9dfb440296be4805468b5633fa 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 1757 Death Date 1823 Occupation geographer, cartographer Biographical Text Display Description Studied at the Academy of Arts and in the Shliakhta Infantry Corps. Worked in the Geography Department of the Academcy of Sciences 1780-1785 and then in the Geography Department of the Military-Topographical Depo and the Ministry of Education. He taught at the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg.  Vil'brekht produced the second atlas of all Russia in the early 1790s and was a key contributor to the important "Detailed Map of the Russian Empire and Surrounding Territories" published in the first decade of the nineteenth century.  He became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in 1814. [<a href="http://istgeodez.com/vilbreht-aleksandr-mihaylo-vich/" target="_blank">Source</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 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vil'brekht cartographer 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 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 The son of the ambassador to France, Anatolii Nikolaevich Demidov organized and funded a scientific expedition through Southern Russia and Crimea by a group of 22 French scholars interested in geology and metallurgy in 1837. The result was a four-volume description of the geography and mineral deposits of the region, including a geological map of Crimea, published in Russian and French 1853-55. Demidov married Napoleon I’s niece and bought the princedom of San Donato near Florence in 1841. Birth Date 1813 Death Date 1870 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 Anatolii Demidov Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kohl, 463; Bragina & Vasil’eva, Puteshestvie, 151-152 geology metallurgy 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 1766 Birthplace Paris Death Date 1822 Occupation governor of Odessa; premier of France (1815-1818, 1820-1821) 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 Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke de Richelieu 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 1815 Death Date 1884 Birthplace Lugano Occupation artist Biographical Text Display Description A Swiss-born, Italian artist who spent much of his childhood in Odessa. Bossoli trained in Italy, but returned to Russia, spending two years exploring - and painting - 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 Carlo Bossoli https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/beautifulspaces/original/a9315b1b087eb8aa97a46297a5d215cf.jpg afe6d63b983c733cdc0af5b8ad11d969 Person An individual. Birth Date 1825 Birthplace St. Petersburg Death Date 1884 Occupation Archaeologist Biographical Text Display Description Member of the Academy of Sciences; founding member of the Moscow Archaeological Society; son of Sergei Semenovich, Minister of Education 1833-1849. Uvarov led excavations in Tavrida province in 1853-1854. 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 Count Aleksei Sergeevich Uvarov Description An account of the resource Author of Sobranie kart i risunkov k izledovaniam o drevnostiakh IUzhnnoi Rossii i beregov CHernago Moria [Collection of maps and drawings to aide in the study of the antiquities of Southern Russia and the shores of the Black Sea], published in St. Petersburg in 1851. archaeology 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. 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 Edward Blore Description An account of the resource Blore (1787-1879) was an architect [...] 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. 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 Elizabeth, Lady Craven