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The administrative geography of Tavrida Province was relatively stable. The original 6 uezds, or counties, were organized by decree in 1784. Four were on the peninsula (Simferopol. Evpatoriia, Perekop and Feodosiia); two were on the mainland…

Heinrich Karl Ernst Köhler studied in Wittenburg and Leipzig. He came to St. Petersburg as a private tutor in 1790 and worked as a librarian at the Hermitage. He grew famous throughout Europe for his studies of classical art. A member of the Academ...

This pair of maps shows the locations of dachas granted to settlers as reported in 1794, and as reported in 1802. Only the properties whose locations I could establish with confidence are shown.

Vil'brekht's map is the best cartographic source I have found for the early post-annexation years. It is quite unique in its almost single-minded devotion to mapping villages, and I took the opportunity to digitize every point on the map, along with…

Mainland districts: Dneprovsk and Melitopol'
Peninsular districts: Perekop, Feodosiia, SImferopol', Evpatoriia

District towns for Dneprovsk and Melitopol' are not marked. Aleshki is on the map, but is shown as a village.

Taranov (1759-1819) was the son of a poor noble from Kharkov. He earned the rank of lieutenant before retiring from military service in 1779. Beginning in 1784 he held a variety of appointed and elected posts in Tavrida, including provincial procurat...

Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)

Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)