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The Mikhail Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum, 9 Nakhimova Prospect, Sevastopol The museum is located in the centre of the city, in a "remarkable" four-story mansion with a "magnificently decorated facade," [ 1 ] built in the late 19th century by the "personal honorary citizen of Sevastopol" merchant Semyon Gavalov.
Sevastopol (/ ˌ s ɛ v ə ˈ s t oʊ p əl, s ə ˈ v æ s t ə p oʊ l /), [a] sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea.Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history.
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The siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War.The allies (French, Sardinian, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men.
The Konstantin or Consantine Battery is a fortification on the north side of Sevastopol in Crimea, also known as Fort Constantine. Completed in 1840, it was named after Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, younger brother of Alexander I of Russia. It currently houses a museum run by the Russian Geographical Society. [1]
The Siege of Sevastopol is a painted panorama by the Russian artist Franz Roubaud. It shows the Allied assault on the Malakhov Battery on 6 (18) June 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War , in which 173,000 British and French troops were repulsed by 75,000 Russians.
This is a list of museums in Ukraine.Many of these museums are at risk in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] To minimize confusion and inadvertent duplication, alternative translations of museum names are given in parentheses following the primary identification, with street addresses as available.
In 2017, archaeologists discovered on the outskirts of Sevastopol, fragments of an ancient Greek altar with figures of gods. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2022, researchers analyzed human skeletal remains from a necropolis in the northern part of Chersonesus, dating to the earliest period of the colony (between the 5th and the 4th century BC).