In a Key Position. Suvorov and the Crimea in his Letters and Notes
Journal: Observatory of Culture
Year: 2015

In a Key Position. Suvorov and the Crimea in his Letters and Notes (by Valentina Naumenko) deals with the problem of joining of the Crimea to the Russian Empire, revealed through the epistolary and literary heritage of the great Russian general Alexander Suvorov. His letters of the years 1777-1779 are both some kind of “portraits of the place” and a first-person history. They demonstrate an experience of the future generalissimo, approaching then his 50th anniversary, in the understanding of the