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Alupka
12022-06-27T16:17:40-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5912garden locationplain2023-01-09T23:58:21-05:0044.4195, 34.0449Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5There were 5 orchards and 4 vineyards at Alupka. Together the gardens covered just over an acre. The former owners were Crimean Tatars. Decades later, Prince Mikhail Vorontsov would build a famous palace here. Care to have a look?
12022-07-02T12:09:53-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5House at Alupka, early 1840s1House with mountains in the background. Tatars stand and sit in the foreground outside the house. Bossoli's note: "Such houses are generally constructed abutting a large rock, the side of which is used as a wall. The roof is flat, and upon it, when the weather is fair, the inhabitants commonly assemble, working or enjoying one another's society."plain2022-07-02T12:09:53-04:0001/01/1840 - 01/01/1844Carlo Bossoli, The beautiful scenery and chief places of interest throughout the Crimea from paintings (London: Day & Son, 1856)Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12020-03-19T23:22:15-04:00Château Vorontsov6View 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 destination as a romantic realm of summer residences studded with "Gothic castles, English cottages, Swiss chalets, [and] American farms" [28]plain2020-12-18T14:49:33-05:0008-12-183744.41808, 34.04531Demidov_pl33md_chateau vorontsov.jpg
12022-07-02T11:32:15-04:00Crimea's southern coast, 18171Military topographical survey map by Semyon Mukhin (Topographical Depot, General Staff)plain2022-07-02T11:32:15-04:001817
12022-07-02T12:09:53-04:00House at Alupka, early 1840s1House with mountains in the background. Tatars stand and sit in the foreground outside the house. Bossoli's note: "Such houses are generally constructed abutting a large rock, the side of which is used as a wall. The roof is flat, and upon it, when the weather is fair, the inhabitants commonly assemble, working or enjoying one another's society."plain2022-07-02T12:09:53-04:0001/01/1840 - 01/01/1844Carlo Bossoli, The beautiful scenery and chief places of interest throughout the Crimea from paintings (London: Day & Son, 1856)
