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Administrative unit (roughly equivalent to county) within Tavrida Province
Uezd Town: Evpatoriia (formerly Gozleve)

Fortifications ranged in and immediately surrounding Tavrida; the newest province of the Russian Empire at the time Wildbrecht's map was published in 1792.

The only two-story Greek church found by Petr Keppen and documented in his "On the antiquities of southern Crimea".

Keppen explains (page 45] that the Crimean Tatars marked grave sites with simple pillars. A chalma(turban) traditionally topped the grave of a man, while a flat shliapka(cap) often topped that of a woman's grave.

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture lists the mausoleum at Salaciq under the Turkish version of its name: the Haci Giray Han Türbesi; the Russian translation is "durbe Khadzhi-Giraia". The site has been on the tentative list of World…

The "Eastern cabinet" (Восточный кабинет) was the first iteration of the Asiatic Museum - an institution called into existence in 1818 by Count Sergej Semenovich Uvarov. Known best as the architect of the "Official Nationality" policy rolled out…