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Semen studied at the Azov Province Survey Expedition. One of his first military posts was as a surveyor in Tavrida province (with the rank of ensign). He participated in the storming of Anapa, and in the suppression of the "confederates" in...

According to Keppen, Sudak was not so much a town as it was a sprawling vineyard sewn with little houses occupied by their owners during the autumn harvest. (Keppen, 124)

Writing at nearly the same time as Keppen, Bronevskii claimed that Sudak…

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)