“…This Area Is almost the only Classical Country in Our Possession”: Baron B. B. Kampengauzen’s Memoir “On the Antiquities in the New Russia Region” (1817)
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2021

This publication introduces into the scholarship Baron B. B. Kampengauzen’s (Campenhausen, 1772–1823) memoir “On the Antiquities in the New Russia Region.” The state controller of the Russian Empire Kampengauzen visited the New Russia Region and the Crimea in summer 1816. In result of this trip, he prepared a long memoir discussing possible transformation of the country. Kampengauzen compiled the part addressing the antiquities of New Russia in a traditional way of the observations of the kind.