Abstract

According to archival documents, the biography of the Theodosian town governor (1810—1816), state councilor Semen Bronevsky, in whose house Pushkin and Raevsky stayed in 1820, was reconstructed. The stages of his military and civil service, the circumstances of disgrace and resignation were traced. Bronevsky is the author of books and notes on the history of Russian-Caucasian relations of the 16th — 19th centuries, which had a significant impact on the works of A. S. Pushkin and M. Yu. Lermontov devoted to the Caucasus and all subsequent historiography of Caucasian studies. As the town governor of Theodosia, Bronevsky did a lot for the improvement of the city, initiated the creation of the first municipal archaeological museum in the Russian Empire — the Theodosia Museum of Antiquities (1811) and the first excavations by the «father of Bosporan archeology» Paul Dubrux in the Eastern Crimea and on the Taman Peninsula.

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