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 destination as a romantic realm of summer residences studded with "Gothic castles, English cottages, Swiss chalets, [and] American farms" [28]
The image is dated 12 August 1837.
Creator:
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Source:
Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)
Date:
1837
Rights:
Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, “Château of Count Voronstov,” The Imperiia Project: Map Gallery Site, accessed March 3, 2026, https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/document/2426.
