CRIMEA
George Page
Micha Jelisavcic
John Sloan
This site is devoted to the history of Crimea.
Here we have added the article on Crimea from the great 11th edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica published in 1910. It obviously is dated now, but
actually gives a better flavor of what Crimea was like in the 19th century, not
long after the Crimean War, than a recent article would. Crimea We are adding the encyclopedia articles on
individual topics such as Bospor,
Chersonesus, Scythia, Khazars, and the like. We will
show selected photos taken during visits to Sevastopol and surrounding region in 1992,
1993, and 1997. For convenience we have divided the material into the subject
categories listed below.
We owe a tremendous debt for the success and great enjoyment of our visits to
Dr. V. Krestiyannikov and Mr. Pavel Lyashuk of the Museum of the Heroic Defense
of Sevastopol - the Panorama Museum in Sevastopol. In addition to providing us
with all logistic support and their personal extensive knowledge of Crimean
history, they also organized meetings with expert historians and archeologists
at every location we visited. We have endeavored to list the names of these
individuals, who were so generous with their time and knowledge. For many of
these topics our first exposure to the subject was the visit to the site
itself. This is especially true for the archeological sites. We are including
as much as possible about the archeological sites because we believe
participating in these exciting exploration projects would be of great interest
to American students. We met many English speaking students at these summer
camps and believe participation would be a great experience for American
students. Micha Jelisavcic recorded the discussions as he interpreted and is
now translating them. He is also translating the many books we were given by
their authors during these visits. In addition, we are researching the subjects
via library references and will be adding information as we find it. Links to
web sites will also be provided. The topics included here obviously only touch
on a few aspects of the history of Crimea. For instance its role in the Russian
Civil War and in World War II is not yet included. Eventually we hope to
complete a book on the entire history. Among those we met and to whom we will
to express great thanks are the following:
Dr. Inna A. Antonova - Chersonessos Museum
Dr. Oleg Beliy - Eski Kerman, Mangup, Chufut-Kale
Dr Ol'ga Dashevskaya - Belyaus-Donuzlav
Dr. Aleksandr Gertsen - Mangup
Aleksei Ivanov - Sudak, Kutlak - Feodosia - Armyanskaya Krepost'
Dr. Vadim Kutaisov - Kalos Liman
Vladimir Pavlenkov - Evpatoria
Dr Eugeniy Turovskii - Chersonessos Museum
Dr. Sergey Vnukov - Kara Tobe
Here we are expanding an outline chronology
of events related to Crimea.
The Panorama museum has prepared an
ambitious project for placing it's extensive holdings on computers and making
this available to researchers world-wide. It is currently seeking to raise
funds to accomplish this. For further information about the museum, its
holdings and anything related to historical oriented visits to Crimea please
contact Mr Pavel Lyashuk. For a very
different and thoroughly enjoyable read about the war from the point of view of
a Russian Jew conscript read The
Crimean Circle.
Map of Crimea
This map is extracted from a US Government map and shows the locations we
visited. Crimea map. We have a special
section listing the many maps we have of
Crimea.
Archeology
Alma river - Scythian
city and cemetery
Chersonesus ancient
Greek colony, later Byzantine city. The article on
Chersonesus from the 11th edition
of Encyclopedia Britannica is here.
Donizlav - Belyaus -
ancient G reek seacoast colony, then Scythian
Kalos Limei - ancient
Greek city, then Scythian town
Kara Tobe - ancient
Greek outpost near Evpatoria
Kutluk - Bosporian kingdom
outpost fort on south east coast
Mangup - kale - Byzantine
fortress, then capital of Feodora principality
Fortresses
- Chufut - Kale - Byzantine,
then Tatar, then Kariate fortress
Chembalo Genoese
fortress at Balaklava
Eski - Kerman - early
medieval cave city, and an article on the 'cave
cities'
Kalimata Feodorite
fortress at Inkerman
Kaffa Genoese fortress city
now Feodosia. The article from the 11th edition of Encyclopdia Britannica on
Theodosia is here.
Kutluk Bosporian fortress on Crimean
coast
Mangup - kale - Byzantine,
then Goth-Alan, fortress
Sudak Genoese
fortress
Crimean
War
Crimean War - general
introduction, article from 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, published
in 1910.
Alma illustrated description of
first battle of the Crimean War, The narrative of the course of the battle
written by Kinglake is at Kinglake..
Balaklava narrative of the
second battle of Crimean War
Balaklava description of
town and tour of battlefield.
Inkerman narrative of the
third battle of Crimean War
Inkerman description of
tour of battlefield.
Sevastopol port and naval
base besieged during Crimean War and World War II. The article on
Sevastopol from the 11th edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica is here.
Panorama museum in
Sevastopol
Museum of the Black Sea
Fleet
Russian memorial
cemetery for Crimean War
Simpson illustrations from
his eye-witness book of paintings on Crimean War
Article about a famous
saber during Crimean War.
Other Historic
Locations
Bakhchisarai Tatar
capital of Crimea and Khan's palace
Evpatoria ancient Greek
city (Kerkinitida), then Tatar (Gozliv), and
19th century center of Kariates.
Historic
Peoples
Scythians ancient
neighbors of Greeks. The article on Scythia from 11th edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica is here.
Bosporian kingdom - sometimes
independent, sometimes vassal or ally of Roman or Byzantine empires. Here we
have the article from the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica
Khazars medieval Turkic
people whose empire centered between Black and Caspian Seas north of Caucasus
and who controled much of Crimea at various times. This site created by Kevin
Brook is the last word on this people and it has a huge bibliography and many
related web links. The article in 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica on
Khazaria is here.
Links to other web
pages
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