The road to Ai-Petri. Yalta-Bakhchisaray highway
(
Serie A journey in the past
)
Illustrations and maps
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This book tells about the background and history of the construction of one of the most popular and beautiful mountain roads in Crimea - Yalta - Bakhchisarai highway. On the basis of recently discovered archival documents and historical photographs, pre-revolutionary local history, periodical and reference literature, memoirs of old-timers, the authors express their version of the development of events, open previously unknown information about the summer palace of Empress Maria Alexandrovna "Chair-Eriklik", the unbuilt palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich ( senior) "Katemeiz", about the people who took part in the construction of this mountain road, who did a lot for the improvement of Yalta.
