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96 Greeks and 38 Armenians abandoned this area in 1778.

View of Crimean Tatar butcher and other merchants, smoking and talking in the street outside their stalls. Meat hangs from hooks at the butcher's stall and a pack of dogs sit opposite the merchants.

20 August 1837

Ruins of a Greek church

A dacha composed of 1,214 desiatinas (3,279 acres), of which 86% was considered suitable for cultivation.

One of the trio of capes that mark the shift in topography from the southwesterly line to a westerly line along the coast to Balaklava. Anyone stationed here could see Ruskofil Kale, Palikaster, Yalta, Uchansu-Isar, and Orianda. Only the foundations…

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.

View of Count Mikhail Vorontsov's palace in the distance with Crimean Tatar men gathered in a circle in the foreground. According to Demidov, the (coastal) region around Alupka, "washed in sunlight and bathed by the sea," was quite the fashionable…

Chatyr Dag stands 5,010 feet above sea level. It looms over the seaside town of Alushta on the south-eastern coast of Crimea.