History of Russia: "The Crimea in a Petersburger-eye View" exhibition in Simferopol

"Crimea in a Petersburger-eye View" exhibition, organized by the Archives Committee of St. Petersburg, with the support of the State Archival Service of the Republic of Crimea, opening has taken place within the framework of Days of St. Petersburg in the Republic of Crimea. The opening of the exhibition was held at the Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library.

Apart the documents that were collected for the exhibition from six central state archives of St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, the Russian National Library and State Russian Museum have provided their materials.

Of great interest are the documents showing the Crimea in its pure beauty and its national coloring. From this point of view, the sketches of the great Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, who visited the peninsula in the 1830s, are unique. These renderings are courtesy offered by the State Hermitage Museum and for the first time available for a wide range of viewers.

A separate group consisted of documents illustrating the presence in the Crimea of the members of the Imperial House of Romanov in their summer residences and their peninsula sightseeing.

The exhibits also tell how did the St. Petersburg’s residents help the Sevastopol locals, suffered during its defense in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, and illustrate solidarity of the residents of besieged during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 Leningrad and Sevastopol, and the contribution of Leningrad’s architects into reconstruction of the Hero-City of Sevastopol.

The exhibition presents documents and photos of the Crimean villas of the Russian aristocracy and Soviet sanatoriums and recreation in Crimea of well-known people.

In accordance with the agreements reached between the State Archival Service of the Republic of Crimea and Archives Committee of St. Petersburg, this exhibition will be shown throughout 2015 in the cities of the Republic of Crimea.