title: Путешествия в Крым Екатерины II и Александра I как фактор становления системы сохранения исторического наследия Северного Причерноморья
abstract: The article considers Catherine II’s and Alexander I’s influence on the establishment of the system of north Black Sea Region historic preservation. The study is based on the analysis of official documents, travelers’ accounts, and memoirs. The author considers the role historic monuments played in the Russian monarchs’ itineraries around Crimea. The author describes  how scholarly research was organized as well as restoration works and publication of regulatory legal acts that were meant to pre