title: Archaeological Research of F. Marschall von Bieberstein in the East Crimea and on the Taman Peninsula in 1793–1795
abstract: The article contains the unpublished archival materials of German botanist on the Russian service baron Fedor Kondrat’evich (Friedrich August) Marschall von Bieberstein (1796), mostly his research in the topography of Asian Bosporus according to Strabo and copies of the Ancient Greek, Byzantine, Old-Russian, Armenian and other inscriptions found in the Crimea and the North Caucasus (mainly in the Taman Peninsula) in the late 18th century. These materials were widely used by other scholars, in pa