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On April 8, 1783, Empress Catherine II announced the annexation of the Khanate of Crimea to the Russian Empire

Keppen's Tatar companions told him that this was the site (on the Nikita mys) of a monastery. Keppen approached from the state garden to the east and immediately saw the remains of a wall and further down the cave known as Khale Khoba (Kale Koba), 10…

On June 28, 1784 Potemkin ordered Governor Igelstrom to build a house for him in Akmechet using every salvageable bit of the pleasure palace of Aşlama (Я оный вашему попечению препоручаю, рекомендуя употребить для сего построения, все что можно из…

Chromolithograph of a mosque built by Sultan Baybars (d. 1277) of Egypt. Baybars, one of the great Mamluk sultans, was likely a Kipchak Turk born in the Pontic steppe. He maintained close diplomatic ties with the Kipchak Khanate (also known as the…

Chromolithograph of a crypt of an unknown khan. French title: "Ruins of the sepulchral cave of the khans".

View of the Salgir river, not far from "the village of Mahmud Sultan" according to Bossoli's notes. The Salgir river is the longest river in Crimea.

Rodoslovnye knigi (noble registers) and inventories of individuals included in the dvorianstvo (nobility), 1683-1917

Crimean Tatar women walk with jugs of water toward a house in the distance. A pregnant woman in the foreground wears a head covering; the younger women wear skullcaps (tiubeteikas) - all but the bareheaded women with a jug balanced on her right…

The reports were compiled by the provincial government (such as it was) between 1791 and 1794. There are nine reports in the delo, running 123 listy (146 pages): Report on state fruit gardens and vineyards at Ai-Dere, with notes on previous…