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Ruins of a Greek church

At mid-century, a shilling bought you entrance to the French Exhibition Gallery on London's Pall-mall. There, in March 1856, you could take in the "Crimean Exhibition," which consisted of "authentic sketches, drawings, and pictures" of famous events…

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…

A Karaim fortress two miles east of Bakhchisaray, at the source of the Churuk-Su River. Peter Simon Pallas described it as "situated on a lofty calcareous promontory" and it seems unwise to attempt to improve upon that particular phrasing. In 1793…

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…

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…

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

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