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Crimean Tatars dance, play music, smoke pipes, and lounge in a remarkably lush landscape.
Bossoli notes that the setting is Massandra - one of the estate properties of Prince Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov, who served as Governor-General of…
Bossoli notes that the setting is Massandra - one of the estate properties of Prince Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov, who served as Governor-General of…
View of Tatar house in Alupka with Crimean mountains in the background. Tatars stand and sit in the foreground outside the house.
Bossoli's note: "Such houses are generally constructed abutting a large rock, the side of which is used as a wall.…
Bossoli's note: "Such houses are generally constructed abutting a large rock, the side of which is used as a wall.…
A Crimean Tatar family travels on horseback and on foot near Yalta. Women in burkas carry infants in their laps. Demidov writes that "throughout the summer season, the influx of wealthy people who inhabit the southern coast of Crimea offers farmers a…
Interior view of a cafe. Men sit around a table cross-legged smoking pipes. They have taken off their shoes.
18 October 1837
18 October 1837
View of Crimean Tatar butcher and other merchants, smoking and talking in the street outside their stalls. Meat hangs from hooks at the butcher's stall and a pack of dogs sit opposite the merchants.
20 August 1837
20 August 1837
View of Count Mikhail Vorontsov's palace in the distance with Crimean Tatar men gathered in a circle in the foreground. According to Demidov, the (coastal) region around Alupka, "washed in sunlight and bathed by the sea," was quite the fashionable…
Interior view of a Tatar house. A Tatar family clusters close together around a glowing fire.