Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond (review)
Journal: The Catholic historical review
Year: 2011

Reviewed by: Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond Gregory L. Freeze Christianizing Crimea: Shaping Sacred Space in the Russian Empire and Beyond. By Mara Kozelsky. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2010. Pp. xiv, 270. $42.00. ISBN 978-0-875-80412-5.) This fine monograph examines the “Christianizing” of the Crimea—from the annexation in the late-eighteenth century to the Crimean War and its aftermath. After first mapping the myriad ethnic and con