Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof

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Author

Seymour, Henry, 1820-1877

Title

Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof : Being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bordering provinces; with notices of the naval, military, and commercial resources of those countries

Original Publication

London: John Murray, 1855.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Crimea (Ukraine) -- Description and travel

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77506

Release Date

December 19, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CRIMEA, AND THE SHORES OF THE SEA OF AZOF. — CHAPTER I. THE CRIMEA.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. THE STEPPES OF RUSSIA.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. FROM PERECOP TO SYMPHERÓPOL.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. BAKTCHÉSERAI AND TCHOUFOUT KALEH.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. WHO ARE THE TATARS?
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. SEVASTOPOL.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. ON THE RUSSIAN ARMY.⁠ [101] — Recapitulation of Effective Cossacks. — Recapitulation of the Divisions of Troops composing the Grand Army , according to data of the Year 1852.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. INKERMAN, MANGOUP, AND THE HILLY COUNTRY OF THE CRIMEA.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESE.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. ON THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE CRIMEA.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. BALACLAVA AND VALLEY OF BAIDAR.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. THE SOUTHERN COAST, AS FAR AS ALOUCHTA.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. THE EASTERN COAST AND SOUDAK.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. FROM ALOUCHTA TO SIMPHERÓPOL, KARASOUBAZAR, ESKI KRIM, AND THEODOSIA.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. KERTCH.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. THE SEA OF AZOF.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE COMMERCE OF THE SEA OF AZOF.
24. 24.APPENDIX. — (A.) LIST OF THE RUSSIAN NAVAL FORCE IN THE BLACK SEA IN JANUARY, 1853. — (B.) FIELD MARSHAL COUNT ALEXANDER VASSILIAVITCH SUVÓROF’S DISCOURSE UNDER THE TRIGGER.⁠ [294] — (C.) ON THE TIMBER TRADE OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN RUSSIA.⁠ [313] — (D.) COMMERCE OF PORTS OF CRIMEA, 1852.⁠ [314] — I. Port of Eupatoria. — II. Akméshed. —III. Sevastopol. —IV. Balaclava. —V. Yalta. — VI. Theodosia. — VII. Kertch. — Résumé. — I. Foreign Commerce. — II. Coasting Trade. — (E.) ADVANTAGES LIKELY TO ACCRUE TO THE TRADE OF THE DANUBE FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FREE PORT AT THE ST. GEORGE’S MOUTH OF THE RIVER. — MEMORANDUM.
25. 25.FOOTNOTES

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