The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-08-23
.JRIDA OF RUSSIA
Inc Historic Crimean Peninsula
of the Black Sea.
HORRORS OF ITS GREAT WAR.

In This Famous Conflict Soldiers Died
Like Flies From Disease and Florence
on the Battlefield.
Hanging down into the Black sea
Ike ii butchers cleaver. with its handle
pointed east and the near corner of the
blade joined to the mainland of Rus
s:a the Crimea. where it was first
planned to exile the car when he alb
Dictated. is about as near TO being an
island as peninsula well can be, even
though d very narrow strait Is the
onIy water that lies between it and a
Sc. ond connection with the mainland.
On the one side-to the west-lies the
PerekOp gulf, and to the east, shut out
from the Black sea by the handle Of
the cleaver, is the sea of AZOv."
TIL tile Crimea is outlined in bull
letin by the National Geographic so
ciety from it's Washington headQuar-
ters for geographic research, concern
ing this Florida of Russia jutting out
into EurOpe's inland sea.
With an area matching that of New
Hampshire, q population equal to that
Of New Hampshire and Vermont to-
get her and a climate that bOrrows
rood features from Florida and south
ri California and lad ones from
many places, the Cri nea is one of the
most Fascinating bits of territory be-
,ween Portugal and Cochin china. Its
pOfulace q congress of races. its In
dustries ranging from tho growing OF
subtropical fruits and the housing Of
Rur>las elite as they fee from the
cold. to the herding of sheep and the
growing of grain. 1t is nlace of many
sided activities.
'As the men of wealth of America
have their winter homes in Florida and
those Of western Europe have theirs
along the Riviera, the people Of posi-
ton in Russia have their country seats
n the Crimea. And beautiful places
hey are, for in Russia the rich are
very rich. The height of the social sea-
:on is from the middle Of~August to
he 1st of November.
"rhe peninsula is occupied by 500, 600
people, according to the last census,
mostly Turkish speaking Tartars, with
l scattering of Russians, Greeks, Ger
mans and Jews. Cleanliness and mo-
rality are said to be proverhial traits
Of the Crimean Tartars. who have been
undergoing the influences of Russifica-
ton for several generations They have
aiken up vine culture, fruit growing
md kindred occupations with a zeal
seldom equaled east of the Aegean.
"Of course most interesting Of all
things Crimean are its history, its for
tress and it's imperial palace. In the
second century B. c. the Scythians
founded a kingdom there. and the land
passed through many changes, now IN
der one sovereignty, and now Nnder an
Ither, finally passing to the Tartars,
who in turn were brought under the
rHle Of the TEBkS. In 1TS3 Russia
forced the last khan to abdicate and
made the Crimea a part of one OF her
provinces. The Grim Tartars, who
give the peninsula it's name by reason
If their substantial admixture of Greek
md other blOods, have lost most Of the
Monaghan features, being slender In
uild. possessing aquiline noses. eyes
Ihal have lost the oriental slant and
'GIntenances not quite so inscrutable
Is the eastern type.
I'm the Crimean war, fought by Eng
and, France and Turkey against Rus
ia. the final test of strength came at
,:Cp:stOpOl Here the factors OF IN
united resources operated in the allies
a:0r. Through their command Of the
e. they could secure everything need
ID while the Russians could bring up
heir supplies only across the barren
;teDpes, whose highways were marked
II every step by the dead and the dy-
az, both man and beast
The novels of TOlstOy give graphic
,;e-ture of the Crimean war from the
,1SSian viewpoint. depicting the mis-
;,es Of the march. the anguish OF the
50 in the classmates and the nerve
";ErOying ordeal of manning the lines
3; lor shellfire, there to await the night
tack that might or might not come.
: was in this war that Florence Night
i: ale rendered services as a nurse
hat made her name synonym Of
mastering angel on the worlds bat
t!J!e.ds Then men knew nothing Of
til cause of cholera and such diseases,
a..-i the soldiers died like flies 1t is
{. rrnated that $4,000 British soldiers
Il. buried In the cemetery outside of
S.-JastOpOl.
The imperial large palace. to which
the dethrOned monarch was to retire,
is situated at Livadia. surrounded by
magnificent park 1t is of recent
obstruction and W.; completed In
$50 Hard by is the simply construct
81 small palace, in all upper room of
" Itch Alexander III. died In no 9th
q, country In the world was the reign
IL, ruler possessed of SO many lands
| Il such extensive properties as was the
c;a..e in Russia
Have the Habit.