title: On the Problem of the Population of the Crimea in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and the First Wave of the Crimean Tatar Emigration
abstract: This article addresses disputable questions of statistis of the Crimean population on the eve and in the first decades after the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Empire. These problems are of particular importance in connection with historiographical interpretations of the Crimean Tatar emigrations. The works of A. Ozenbashly, which are the most referred to in Western and Turkish historical scholarship, have been analysed in detail. The errors of his “million-strong” calculations of the p
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria