title: V.D. Smirnov – researcher of the Crimean archives
abstract: During a business trip to the Crimea in 1886, V.D. Smirnov studied the composition of the Simferopol archives. The trip of the orientalist was initiated by the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute. In connection with the request of local scientists about the opening of the provincial scientific archival commission on the peninsula, the director of the Archaeological Institute I.E. Andreevsky appealed to the famous orientalist in the capital V.D. Smirnov with a request to conduct an expert ass
journal: Crimean Historical Review