Eugene Markov's book was first published in 1872, withstood several reprints and became extremely popular during the author's lifetime. These are travel notes of an uninvolved witness who seeks to convey to us not only his impressions of what he saw in the Crimea in the mid-nineteenth century, but also a sense of historical presence in this area of centuries-old Mediterranean culture. First, the reader and the author will travel through the Ukraine of that time and look at Ukrainian rural life through the eyes of an impartial Russian, and then - romantic and mysterious Crimea, the eternal mixture of cultures - ancient, Byzantine, Tatar, Turkish, Slavic ... And all this - illuminated white sun, washed by salty Black Sea water, full of aromas of cypress and lavender ... The proposed book - the first edition of "Crimean Essays" in Ukrainian - will be of interest to all interested in the history of Ukraine and Crimea.
