Browse Items (510 total)

Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)

Site of a durbe (Tatar mausoleum)

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...

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

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

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…

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.

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...

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…