В. А. Жуковский в Крыму: в поисках второй Родины
Journal: Imagologiya i komparativistika
Year: 2014

The authors of the article with the help of the new materials comment on the steadfast interest of V.A. Zhukovsky to the realia of the Crimean Tatars' world during his trip around the Crimea in September of 1837. On the authors' opinion that interest was connected with the Turkish origin of his mother Salha. AftertheRussianarmy having captured the town of Bendery in 1770, she was taken and sent to Russia for fosterage of rich landowner Afanasiy Bunin. Byallaccounts, shewasfr оmthePasha'sharem. T