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Orchard locator map

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Sudak Kelly O'Neill
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Magarach Kelly O'Neill
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Gaspra, Khuruz (Kureiz), Miskhor Kelly O'Neill
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Limen Kelly O'Neill
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Simeiz Kelly O'Neill
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Alupka Kelly O'Neill
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Kucuk Koi Kelly O'Neill
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Mukhalatka Kelly O'Neill
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Laspi Kelly O'Neill
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Foros Kelly O'Neill
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Balaklava Kelly O'Neill
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Sevastopol Kelly O'Neill
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Duvankoi Kelly O'Neill
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mouth of the Belbek River Kelly O'Neill
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mouth of the Kacha River Kelly O'Neill
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Bahcesaray Kelly O'Neill
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mouth of the Alma River Kelly O'Neill
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Kucuk Lambat Kelly O'Neill
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Demerdzhi Kelly O'Neill
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Mshati Kelly O'Neill
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Partenit Kelly O'Neill
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Kozy Kelly O'Neill
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Staryi Krym Kelly O'Neill
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Kutly Kelly O'Neill
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Tuak Kelly O'Neill
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Kucuk Uzen Kelly O'Neill
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Buyuk Uzen Kelly O'Neill
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Kuru Uzen Kelly O'Neill
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Alushta Kelly O'Neill
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Kirklet Kelly O'Neill
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Dermenkoi Kelly O'Neill
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Buyuk Lambat Kelly O'Neill
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Kiziltash Kelly O'Neill
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Gurzuf Kelly O'Neill
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Nikita Kelly O'Neill
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Masandra (Marsanda) Kelly O'Neill
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Derekoi Kelly O'Neill
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Yalta and Autka Kelly O'Neill
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Military-topographical map of Crimea (the Jervis edition) Kelly O'Neill
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Apple
Яблоня; Pyrus malus
Prevalence in tree population: 4% (696 trees)
Occurrence rate: 90%
Season: mid-July through September
Explore the varieties taking Russia by storm in the early 20th century.

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing apples.
Orchard Locator
Ready to turn the clock back to the early nineteenth century?
"Gardens of Crimea" studies the 809 orchards registered as state properties in the early years of Russian imperial rule. The registers associate each orchard plot with one of eighty-nine villages, but for thirty we have data identifying tree quantities and types. Those thirty villages are highlighted in this project.

In 1817 a cartographer named Semyon Mukhin working for the Military Topographical Depot of the Russian General Staff produced a ground-breaking topographical survey map of Crimea.
Mukhin published his map twenty-four years after the compilation of the garden registers - that is a meaningful amount of time in which all sorts of things changed. Wars, droughts, earthquakes, tragedies and triumphs of all kinds. Nevertheless, this is the first map produced at a scale that allows us a detailed look at the peninsula's topography. It allows us to see each village in its historical context. For example, here is the famous Baydar Valley..
The southern coast of Crimea runs along the bottom of the map detail. Balaklava is shown on the coast near the western edge. The Crimean mountains are depicted as a ridge line running west to east along the bottom. Areas rendered dark by hachures (lines representing elevation change) are set off from bright areas, some of which are at higher altitude (such as the alpine plateau at lower right) and some of which are low, such as the Baydar Valley at the center. The map describes the valley as partially forested, crossed by streams, and with a road running through the center.

Now for a bit of magic. What if you could see the same map, rendered in English instead of Russian?

This is Thomas Best Jervis' 1855 edition of the same map. (How Mukhin's high-end military-topographical survey of Crimea ended up in British hands on the eve of the Crimean War is a story for another day.) You can see that the cartography and data are more or less unchanged. The 1855 English edition still claims, for example, that there were 80 households in the village of Baydar.

Let's use this later edition to orient ourselves to the space described in the registers. Move your cursor across the image to see the orchard locations. The villages are listed below as "tagged" pages - go to any location page by clicking the placename.
Curious about the broader geography of fruit cultivation? Check out this 1895 map!
Wild (Sweet) Cherry
Черешня; prunus avium
Prevalence in tree population: 4% (623 trees)
Occurrence rate: 76%

Wild cherry, also known as sweet cherry, had a substantial presence in the gardens of Mishati and Kuchuk Uzen. 25% of all sweet cherries were near Kuchuk Uzen, and 29% near Sudak.

Karl Gablits identifies the tree as guignier (a French term based on the old Celtic word kign) - known throughout Europe as sweet cherry or wild cherry. It is an uncultivated tree that spreads, naturally, through forests.
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing sweet cherries.
Plum
Слива; Prunus domestica
Prevalence in tree population: 40% (6,272 trees)
Occurrence rate: 93%

The plum is by far the dominant tree on the orchard registers (hazelnuts are a distant second with 14% of the tree population). Plums were widespread and prominent, with an average of 224 trees in the collected gardens of each village (whereas the average number of apple trees was 25).

Mini-trove of botanical illustrations
Where are the trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing plums.
Pear
Дулиня, груша; pyrus communis
Prevalence in tree population: 8% (1,208 trees)
Occurrence rate: 97%
Season: July to August
Explore the varieties taking Russia by storm in the early 20th century.

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing pears.
Mulberry
Щелковица; Morus alba et nigra
Prevalence in tree population: 1% (125 trees)
Occurrence rate: 37%
Season: July

Mulberry trees made up 10% of classified trees at Foros; 35% of the mulberries grew at Magarach.
Where are the Orchards?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing mulberry trees.
Fig
Смоквы или фиги; Figuier; Ficus carica
Prevalence in tree population: less than 1% (27 trees)
Occurrence rate: 37%

According to the registers, figs were fairly common but found in small numbers.

Where are the orchards?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing fig trees.
Sour Cherry
Вишня; Prunus cerasus
Prevalence in tree population: 6% (880 trees)
Occurrence rate: 3%

Sour cherries made up 31% of trees at Sudak (which was the location of 100% of sour cherry trees identified in the registers).
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing sour cherries.
Persimmon
Фурма; (also date-plum); Diospyrus lotus
Prevalence in tree population: less than 1% (8 trees)
Occurrence rate: 10%

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing persimmon.
Quince
Айва; Pyrus cydonia
Quantity: 5% (773 trees)
Occurrence rate: 47%

The registers tell us that nearly 80% of the quince trees grew near Sudak. Gablits, on the other hand, says that they grow in almost every garden he has investigated, and that they are particularly common in the mountains and just across the Kerch strait at Taman.
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing quinces.
Walnut
Волошский орех, грецкий орех; Juglans regia
Prevalence in tree population: 11% (1,676 trees)
Occurrence rate: 93%
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing walnuts.
Almond
Миндаль; Amandier; Amygdalus communis
Prevalence in tree population: less than 1% (1 tree)
Occurrence rate: less than 1%
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing almonds.
Rowan
Рябина; Sorbus domestica
Prevalence in tree population: 6% (977 trees)
Occurrence rate: 73%

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing rowan trees.
Medlar
Мушмоль; Mespilis
Prevalence in tree population: 1% (171 trees)
Occurrence rate: 13%

Where are the trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing plum trees.
Hazelnut
Фундук; Corylus avellana
Prevalence in tree population: 14% (2,242 trees)
Occurrence rate: 20%

The largest concentration of hazelnuts (64%) was at Yalta.
Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing hazelnuts.
Peach
Персик; Amygdalus persica
Prevalence in tree population: less than 1% (2 trees)
Occurrence rate: less than 1%
Season: September

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing peaches.
Olive
Маслина; Olea Europeae
Prevalence in tree population: less than 1% (50 trees)
Occurrence rate: 13%

Where did imperial officials count trees?
Move your cursor over the map below. White rectangles will appear showing the locations of villages with orchards containing olive trees.

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Яблоня; Pyrus malus

Explore the varieties taking Russia by storm in the early 20th century.

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Ready to turn the clock back to the early nineteenth century?

Curious about the broader geography of fruit cultivation? Check out this 1895 map!

Черешня; prunus avium

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Слива; Prunus domestica

Mini-trove of botanical illustrations

Where are the trees?

Дулиня, груша; pyrus communis

Explore the varieties taking Russia by storm in the early 20th century.Where did imperial officials count trees?

Щелковица; Morus alba et nigra

Where are the Orchards?

Смоквы или фиги; Figuier; Ficus carica

Where are the orchards?

Вишня; Prunus cerasus

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Фурма; (also date-plum); Diospyrus lotus

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Айва; Pyrus cydonia

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Волошский орех, грецкий орех; Juglans regia

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Миндаль; Amandier; Amygdalus communis

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Рябина; Sorbus domestica

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Мушмоль; Mespilis

Where are the trees?

Фундук; Corylus avellana

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Персик; Amygdalus persica

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Маслина; Olea Europeae

Where did imperial officials count trees?

Explore the varieties taking Russia by storm in the early 20th century.

Where did imperial officials count trees?