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Tatars Dancing at Masandra
12022-07-03T12:44:22-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f591Crimean Tatars dance, play music, smoke pipes, and lounge in a remarkably lush landscape at Masandra. The Vorontsov estate house is visible in the background.plain2022-07-03T12:44:22-04:0001/01/1840 - 01/01/1844Carlo Bossoli, The beautiful scenery and chief places of interest throughout the Crimea from paintings (London: Day & Son, 1856). Image courtesy of Preservation, Curation and Archives, Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12022-06-27T16:16:46-04:00Masandra4garden locationplain2022-07-03T12:45:30-04:0044.5096, 34.1882There were 23 orchards at Masandra (Massandra), all previously owned by Greeks. (Hundreds of Greeks left this village in 1778.)
Massandra was among the estate properties of Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Governor-General of New Russia (Novorossiya) and Bessarabia from 1823 until 1844. Largely by virtue of its productive vineyards and orchards, by the end of the nineteenth century Massandra had become the economic crown jewel of Vorontsov’s holdings, while Alupka, with its ostentatious palace, acquired the most fame.
