title: Crimea as a Place of Individual and Collective Memory in the Works of Andrei Muraviev
abstract: The present sketch is an attempt to present Muraviev’s perception of Crimea from the angle of its places of memory which have also become autobiographical for the author. In 1825 Tauride, ‘the smile of the earth, the joy of the heavens’, enchanted him with its landscapes. But it was already then that the peninsula drew the writer’s attention fi rst of all as being the cradle of the Ruthenian Christianity. This is why he cared for the memory, tried to protect the ruins of Tauridian Chersonessus a