The conquest of Crimea by the Russian Empire through the eyes of Kara

The book for the first time offers the reader to the reader Karaite historical chronicles from the Chufut-Kale period of the joining of the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian Empire. These texts translated by the author from Hebrew are narrated by both the events of the conquest of Crimea by Russian troops and the position of the Karaite community in this stormy era. They reflect the worldview, values ​​and a look at the history of chronicists, representatives of the traditional Karaites before their communities were subjected to modernization processes.
The author leads an overview of the history and culture of this community, comments on the chronicles, as well as the historical, cultural and literary-linguistic analysis of the chronicle. These essays are still not investigated, a special historiographic genre - Karaite chronography, created throughout the XVI-XIX centuries. In Crimea and reopened by the author in archives today