Main Street in Bahcesaray (Grande Rue de Baghtcheh-Sarai) (Still Image)

Main Street in Bahcesaray (Grande Rue de Baghtcheh-Sarai)

View of main street in Bahcesaray (Bakhchisaray). Crimean Tatars in ox-driven wagons ride down the street while others walk or sit on the side.

Demidov notes that the street is "lined with shops selling things Tatar have produced for two centuries," including pottery, cutlery, slippers, purses, and belts, and with the ubiquitous mountains of watermelons - that fruit serving as almost the sole source of nourishment for many people.

According to Demidov, the Tatars "work in moderation and shop with dignity." (36)

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

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)

1837

Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

drawing from nature; lithograph

John Hay Library, Brown University

56 cm