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This image shows Crimean Tatars traveling on foot, on horseback, and in camel-driven wagons.

This dacha consisted of 4,706 desiatinas (12,690 acres) of land suitable for cultivation.

The grant consisted of a vineyard in the Kozy Valley.

Composed of 5,900 desiatinas (16,000 acres), 61% of which was suitable for cultivation.

This dacha consisted of 1,362 to 1,409 desiatinas, mostly fertile land near Nizhnaia Alma.

Not only are women hard to find in the written record: often, just when you've found one, she slips out of view. Such is the case with Bakhty Sultan, daughter of Sali Bey [clan unknown], wife of Sefirşa Mirza Şirin, and mother to at least one son. We…

Inscribed in part 3 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those who attained civil rank of 8 or higher).

Inscribed in part 2 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those whose noble status was defined by military service).

Women are rarely mentioned in the documents describing noble status, but they are all over the cases described in the Senate confirmation lists. Throughout "Beautiful Spaces" I have used a very basic tag - "women" - to mark Items in which a woman is…

Inscribed in part 2 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those whose noble status was defined by military service).