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Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church. The only example of an angular (rather than semispherical) altar identified by Keppen.

Ruins of a Greek church

Ruins of a Greek church. Keppen found an inscription on the slab above the door with far more recent provenance than the church itself. The Russian translation of the Greek runs as follows: Gervasij Ieromonakh Sumely, puteshestvie 1754; 176.; 1765.…

Ruins of a Greek church

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…