The Past of the Crimea as Perceived by British Missionary Ebenezer Henderson
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2017

This paper analyses the notion of the past of the Crimea in the public mind of the first quarter of the nineteenth century according to a book by famous British Biblicist and traveller Ebenezer Henderson (1784–1858). Henderson worked for the Russian Bible Society which distributed the Holy Scriptures among the peoples of the Empire. Emperor Alexander I patronised the work of the Society probably in order to use their results to facilitate the integration of non-Orthodox populations into his Empi