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Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)

46 Greeks and 40 Armenians abandoned this area in 1778.

Land for cattle near Sivash

The most famous Crimean ruin is that of Chersonesos (Chersonesus, Khersones) near Sevastopol. Peter Simon Pallas was so impressed with this site that he described the area as "truly classic ground": ground that yielded bits and pieces of Greek…

The only known copy is held at the New York Public Library. The glorious illustrations were intended to accompany Uvarov's study, commissioned by the Imperial Archaeological Society in 1847. This volume is the basis for the Uvarov's Antiquities…

The idea of Beautiful Spacesis to expose the myriad ways in which pieces of the historical record are connected across diverse contexts, at a variety of scales, and with a range of implications. To that end, the project uses three primary tools built…

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.