Tag: Crimea

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Lady Craven’s first impressions of Cherson (1786)

This place is situated upon the Dneiper, called by the ancients, the Boristhenes; which falls into the Black Sea; the only inconvenience of the docks here is that the ships, when built, are obliged to be taken with camels into that part of the channel deep enough to receive them — The town is not