A Tour of Edward Daniel Clarke and Peter Simon Pallas to the South-Western Crimea in September 1800
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2022

This work analyses a very specific source on the Crimean history at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: British traveller Edward Daniel Clarke’s account of his journey to the south-western extremity of the Peninsula to study archaeological sites dating to different historical periods. This episode was described in a chapter of Clarke’s “Travels,” which became extraordinary popular and to a great extent shaped the notion of the Crimea in the public mind of the West. Clarke contri