Boris Denike’s Contribution to the Studies of the Crimean Tatar Architectural Heritage
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This article presents a historiographical reconstruction of a little-known page in the heritage and biography of the art historian and orientalist Boris Petrovich Denike (1885–1941). The research uses the method of comparing the content of B. P. Denike’s article with the entries in his journal concerning the visits to the Crimea from 1905 to 1937. This approach allows the one to prove that the description of the monuments provided by B. P. Denike’s essay is the result of not only rethinking of t