Creation of a Myth: Rethinking the Cultural Heritage Sites of the Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2022

This paper analyses the myths which appeared around some local archaeological and architectonic sites after the Crimea’s incorporation into Russia in 1783. The author refers to legends of the flood developing around the mediaeval “cave towns”, the remnants of the temple of Tauric Diana, the imprints of St Andrew’s feet, the turbe at the mediaeval town of Chufut-Kale, and Maria Potocka as a captive of the Crimean khan’s harem. The author demonstrates the multidirectional intellectual interactions