The Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisarai - a Cultural Artifact and Architectural Ekphrasis Based on the Texts of Pushkin, Bunin, Parajanov
Journal: Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Year: 2025

The study uses biographical, historical-literary, comparative and hermeneutical methods to examine some texts that form the artistic image of the Bakhchisarai Khanate in Russian literature for almost two centuries. The Palace of the Crimean Khans in Bakhchisarai, also known as Khan-Sarai, is a unique structure that is the only example of palace architecture in the Crimean Tatar style in the world. In Russia, it is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. If in realit