Imperiia: a spatial history of the Russian EmpireMain MenuAboutProjectsDashboardsData CatalogMapStoriesGalleriesGamesWho said history was boring?Teach Our ContentCiting the ProjectKelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5The Imperiia Project // Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Beautiful Spaces
12018-02-16T08:33:12-05:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591Crimea under Russian ruleimage_header2019-03-27T05:59:01-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5This is a history of Crimea, though it is not the kind of history you have likely encountered before. Rather than reconstructing political events or cultural developments, this project puts the idea of location front and center. It attempts to reconstruct the places and spaces of Crimea in the years after the first Russian annexation in April 1783. It explores the value of distance and proximity, density and diffusion, access and isolation, as tools of historical analysis. In so doing, it sheds light on the ways in which the built and natural environments shaped daily life in (arguably) the most beautiful corner of the tsarist empire.
