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The average length of files pertaining to inscription in the noble register (I itemized 740 during my time in the archive, though I might have missed one here or there) is 35 listy.

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture lists the mausoleum at Salaciq under the Turkish version of its name: the Haci Giray Han Türbesi; the Russian translation is "durbe Khadzhi-Giraia". The site has been on the tentative list of World…

The "Eastern cabinet" (Восточный кабинет) was the first iteration of the Asiatic Museum - an institution called into existence in 1818 by Count Sergej Semenovich Uvarov. Known best as the architect of the "Official Nationality" policy rolled out…

The typographical error. Here we find Abduraim Aga Khodzhaev on the list of confirmed nobles of Tavrida. It doesn't seem too much of a stretch to assume him to be one and the same as Abduraman Aga Kodzhaev, who was inscribed in the noble register in…

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…

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…

Temir Bey Biiarslan's petition for noble status is in DAARK Fond 49. While I worked extensively with the fond, this is one of the files I did not happen to read. Alas.

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.[...] Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out;…

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…

At mid-century, a shilling bought you entrance to the French Exhibition Gallery on London's Pall-mall. There, in March 1856, you could take in the "Crimean Exhibition," which consisted of "authentic sketches, drawings, and pictures" of famous events…