Defence of the Crimea in A. V. Suvorov and F. de Wollant’s Military Engineering Projects (1792–1794)
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This article addresses A. V. Suvorov and F. de Wollant’s works of 1793–1794 aimed at the modernization of the strategic defence system of the newly acquired territory of the Russian Empire. Regarding the organization of the defence of the Crimea, the change in the location of its key main elements is clearly noticeable. Before the unification of the Crimea with Russia, the idea was to control the coast and the inland by the fieldwork fortification system developed in the 1770s. From 1783 on, the