Catherine II’s “Midday Voyage” and Ledy’s Craven Contrvoyage in the Context of Positioning Crimea and Novorossiya as the Central Spaces of the “Greek Project”

Number of journal: 3-2023
Autors:

Panukhin P.V.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31659/0044-4472-2023-3-62-69
УДК: 94.(47).066

 

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The article analyzes the “Greek project” of Catherine II, the main goal of which was the assertion of Orthodox values of Russia as the successor of Byzantium and the embodiment of the “Third Rome” in the South European geopolitical positioning. According to its function, the voyage to the “noonday region” conceived by Ekaterina and Potemkin was nothing more than the highest inspection of the newly acquired lands of Novorossiya and Crimea after the Russian-Turkish war of 1758–1774. The author also analyzes the attempt of the British special services to prevent the positioning of Crimea as the territory of the Russian Orthodox world by organizing a “counter-voyage” to the Crimea of their agent, traveler Elizabeth Lady Craven to collect strategic information, drawing up a map of the peninsula and describing its settlements.
P.V. PANUKHIN, Candidate of Architecture (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy) – MARKHI (11, Rozhdestvenka Street, 107031, Moscow, Russian Federation)

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For citation: Panukhin P.V. Catherine ii's "Midday voyage" and ledy's Craven contrvoyage in the context of positioning Crimea and Novorossiya as the central spaces of the "greek project". Zhilishchnoe Stroitel’stvo [Housing Construction]. 2023. No. 3, pp. 62–69. (In Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31659/0044-4472-2023-3-62-69


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