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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…
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Panorama view of the city of Alushta, located on Crimea's southern coast with Crimean mountains in the background and Crimean Tatars on foot and on horseback in the foreground.
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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…
Kattı Giray’s estate at Demirdzhi of roughly 1,000 desiatinas included a manor house. He also owned “a beautiful seaside villa” and vineyard near Artek.
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