The Crimea as Viewed by British Adventurer William Eton
Journal: Golden Horde Review
Year: 2020

Research objective: This paper analyses the account of the Crimea supplied in a little-known source written by British adventurer, William Eton, who visited this pe­ninsula in the period of an independent Crimean Khanate and used extremely interesting information taken from both his own experience and his Crimean friends. Research materials: This paper addresses Eton’s book, titled A Survey of the Turkish Empire, published in London in 1798, which was never used by Russian scholarship, and respo