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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 tau...

Kattı Giray’s estate at Demirdzhi of roughly 1,000 desiatinas included a manor house. He also owned “a beautiful seaside villa” and vineyard near Artek.

Major-General Sergei Ivanovich Mal’tsov included minarets in the design of this two-storey palace. As if the minarets were not curiosity enough, Mal'tsov built the palace of crystal.

Catherine II ennobled the Mal’tsovs, a merchant family, in 1775.…

Major F. D. Revelioti owned one of the most extensive collections of land in the province in the early nineteenth century. Revelioti owned homes in Balaklava and Simferopol, as well as land at Foros, Kikeneiz, Simeiz, Alupka, Oreanda, Mukhalatka and ...

Major Revelioti acquired Livadiia from his predecessor in the battalion, Colonel Lambros Katsionis, and sold it to Lev Severinovich Pototskii in 1834. The estate flourished under the stewardship of yet another member of the Vorontsov network. (Among…

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-vol...

Founded by Nikolai Demidov; inherited by his sons, Pavel and Anatolii.

Admiral Nikolai Mordvinov purchased this estate. It had been owned by Prince Potemkin and then by his heir, Major General Vysotskii. Mordvinov purchased 15,100 desiatinas and expanded the estate to 20,000 desiatinas by winning a lengthy and intensely…

Owned by General N. N. Raevksii, hero of the battle of Borodino. Located near Foros.

Natal’ia Kirilovna Zagriazhskaia, the eldest daughter of the famous (former) Hetman of Ukraine K. G. Razumovskii, had owned Mukhalatka and passed it to her daughter, Kochubei's wife.