A brief story of Crimea from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century

Crimea occupies a special place in world and Russian history and culture. In Crimea, Rus" adopted Christianity. In the Middle Ages and New Time, the history of the peninsula and Russia was often intertwined until its accession to the Russian Empire in 1783. The peninsula was an arena of significant events: the Crimean War, the 1917 revolution and the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War, the Yalta Conference of 1945, the Yalta Conference,, Staying since 1954 as part of the Ukrainian SSR, the return to the Russian Federation and other authors, based on archival documents and the latest domestic and foreign scientific literature, give their own interpretation of the history of the peninsula from antiquity to the first two decades of the XXI century.

The book is intended for historians, political scientists, culturalists, teachers, students, graduate students and all those interested in the history of Crimea