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,” Town Planning on an Imperial Scale, accessed April 18, 2024, https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/document/2426.
