title: Мифологические проекции путешествия Екатерины II в Тавриду 1787 года в контексте государственного утопизма XVIII столетия (на материале мемуарно-эпистолярных источников)
abstract: The author examines two mythological projections of Empress Catherine II’s journey to Crimea (Crimea as an ancient Taurida; Crimea as the garden of Eden) regarded in the context of state utopianism of the 18 th century. The analysis is made referring to the memoir and epistolary literature of the authors who took part in the journey (Catherine II, G.A. Potemkin, count L.-Ph. Segur, prince Ch.-H. Nassau-Siegen, count K. von Liudolf, D. Harris, lord of Malmsbury; Ch. Masson).