The museum in Yalta are not numerous but they are very interesting. One of them is Chekhov’s Museum. It is the house where the great Russian writer lived. Checkhov acquired a plot of land in Yalta in 1898. Checkhov’s house was built according to a project of Russian architect Leonid Shapovalov. It was a house […]
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Livadia Palace was a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, Nicolas II, and his family in Livadia, Crimea.The Yalta Conference was held there.In 1945, when the palace housed the apartments of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other members of the American delegation.Today the palace house a museum, but it is also sometimes used for international
Ivan Aivazovsky was born and lived in Feodosia in a house on the very edge of the sea. Here he spent his childhood and the years of his maturing as a painter; Here his great and inimitable ideas were born, and pictures which still move the word were painted.Aivazovsky’s pictures are full of sounds –
The Crimean Nature Reserve was founded in 1913 as the emperor’s Game Preserve. In 1923 it was declared a state reserve. It is the largest nature reserve in Russia. Its protected area measuring 44’175 hectares. In 1976 the Crimean Nature Reserve organized of nature museum and center-zoo. The museum’s exhibitions cover the unique natural complexes
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According to recorded sources, Sudak was founded in the year 212. Its name originates from the old Iranian word « sughda » – « pure », « saint ». The fact, as well as some local archaeological finds linked to the Iranian tribes of Alans, may well indicate that they were the city’s founders. In the 4th century, the South-eastern Crimea
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The Nikita Botanical Gardens, located in the settlement of Nikita in Greater Yalta, covers an area of over 1000 acres. The Nikita Gardens have a number of branches in the Crimea and Kherson region, and also include a forest reserve on the Cape Martyan coast. Dating from 1812, the Nikita Gardens in the world. Apart
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