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Таганрог / Taganrog

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2015 · Travel & Events

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Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях.
Таганрог
Таганрог Место рождения Антона Чехова

Pre-revolutionary photographs of Russia
Taganrog.

Here I present an album of photographs of the Taganrog a port cry n the province of Rostov, Russa, located on the mort shore of Taganrog Bay  on the Sea of Azov.
The city was founded by Peter the Great in 1698 and became the man base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, until Crimea became part of the Russian Empire. 
In 1802, Emperor Alexander I granted the cry special status, which lasted until 1887. He built a summer residence here and it was the place where he died in November 1825.
Tagenrog is also the birthplace of the great Russian writer, Anton Chekhov. Hs parents were married in the Cathedral of the Assumpton and he was also baptised n the Cathedral.

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