Open AccessIn a Key Position. Suvorov and the Crimea in his Letters and Notes
Author(s) -
V. G. Naumenko
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-3-96-101
Subject(s) - peninsula , portrait , key (lock) , multinational corporation , position (finance) , history , empire , ancient history , geography , art history , law , political science , archaeology , computer science , computer security , finance , economics
In a Key Position. Suvorov and the Crimea in his Letters and Notes (by Valentina Naumenko) deals with the problem of joining of the Crimea to the Russian Empire, revealed through the epistolary and literary heritage of the great Russian general Alexander Suvorov. His letters of the years 1777-1779 are both some kind of “portraits of the place” and a first-person history. They demonstrate an experience of the future generalissimo, approaching then his 50th anniversary, in the understanding of the main tasks of that era, his knowledge of terrain and people of that multinational peninsula.