Crimea. Khans, sultans and tsars

This book historian and Geographer Thomas Milner wrote in the midst of the Crimean War, in the days of the first defense of Sevastopol. Without a detailed description of the battles, the author presented an overview of the entire history of the Crimea: antiquity, when the peninsula was Greek, the Middle Ages, when the Crimea owned the Genoese, then the Ottoman Empire and Tatar Khanate, and, finally, the events that led to the Russian war, as a result of which The peninsula entered the Russian Empire. Milner draws attention to the peculiarities of the geographical situation and the climate of this land, talks about its ancient monuments, about the peoples of its inhabiting, rulers and heroes of different eras, about endless hostilities and political intrigues