The peninsula is a harmonious combination of the sea, luscious nature, mass tourism and memorable attractions for a lifetime. There are only 17 state museums here with 26 branches. Crimea opens museums at enterprises and institutions, and private collections are increasingly acquiring the status of panopticons.
Crimean palaces
Studying architecture and history from buildings built in the past is quite an interesting activity. The palaces of the peninsula are the best suited for this. They harmoniously complement the museums of the Crimea. A photo with a description in an album of reproductions is good, but visiting and seeing with your own eyes, judging by the reviews of tourists, is much more entertaining.
The most exotic palace and park complex of the peninsula, the Vorontsov Palace, is wedged between the coast and Mount Ai-Petri, not far from Y alta. Its architecture, commissioned by the local governor, Count Mikhail Vorontsov, was carried out by English architects. The construction of a bizarre combination of a Scottish castle, repeating the outlines of the overhanging mountains, withthe Arab-Asiatic seraglio and six lions opening the way to the sea took 18 years (1828-1846). The reviews of tourists mention paintings, interior items, a dining room and a winter garden made in the English style.
Massandra Palace was built as a hunting lodge for the royal family. It is made in a pretentious style, and the turrets resemble French castles. Construction took a long time and was completed only in 1889 by Emperor Alexander III. The recently restored palace interior acquaints visitors with paintings by eminent masters and antique furniture of the 19th century. The palace is surrounded by an even more exquisite park with water lilies blooming on the pond. According to the reviews of tourists who have visited Massandra, it is precisely such museums that must be attributed to the must-see. Crimea no less reverently preserves the history of personalities. This can be seen in the memorial houses of famous people who lived on the peninsula or visited it.
Memorial houses and cottages
The peninsula was regularly visited by many outstanding personalities. There were politicians and actors, poets and artists. So, Feodosia keeps the memory of the world's best marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. Born by the sea and immensely in love with its indomitable element, the master managed to convey all the colors and movements of the Black Sea.
Poets Alexander Pushkin and Maximilian Voloshin also left their mark on the peninsula. The museums of Y alta and Koktebel keep their memory.
The Tsvetaeva sisters, the author of Scarlet Sails, left their mark on the CrimeaAlexander Green and Konstantin Paustovsky. Their museums are located in Feodosia and Stary Krym.
The famous Russian writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov lived out the rest of his days on the southern coast as a seriously ill, incurable consumptive in those years. According to the reviews of tourists who visited the museum, the memorial house in Y alta, dedicated to his memory, personified the "Cherry Orchard". Here and at his dacha, the writer created "Three Sisters". Photographs, letters, books, personal belongings and memoirs of contemporaries are carefully preserved by these museums. Crimea has become the scene of hostilities many times. The history of military campaigns and feats of arms is preserved in many collection funds of the peninsula.
Glory to the military past
Practically in every museum of the peninsula, at least 1 room is reserved for the story of the military exploits of Russia and the Crimeans. Being a tasty morsel for the invaders, the territory of the peninsula was many times and at different times conquered by the Greeks, Turks, Germans, French, British and other invaders. Local history museums tell about it. Crimea invites you to get acquainted with their expositions in Simferopol, Kerch, Feodosia, Evpatoria and other equally glorious cities.
However, Sevastopol, the hero city, an outpost of Russian glory and Black Sea sailors, accumulated the largest number of memos on its territory. Reading the reviews of tourists, one can come to the conclusion that the memorial complex "35th Battery" occupies a central place in this galaxy. She became both a witness and a directparticipant in epochal events, the last line of defense of the city in 1941-1942. The times of the Great Patriotic War are also remembered by Malakhov Kurgan and Sapun Mountain.
An earlier history of feats of arms is preserved in the famous Sevastopol panorama at the top of the Historical Boulevard, in the Mikhailovskaya Battery and in the Museum of the Black Sea Fleet.
Museums in Crimea for children
Many similar venues on the peninsula aim to arouse the interest of not only adult visitors. Little tourists will be happy to visit the "Glade of fairy tales" near Y alta, visit the zoological museum in Simferopol, as well as an aquarium in Sevastopol or Evpatoria.
- "Glade of fairy tales" - more than 300 figures of wonderful heroes, placed at the foot of the mountain in the open air. They were made of wood and stone by folk craftsmen from different countries of the CIS and Europe. Toddlers will have an incomparable pleasure when they meet their favorite characters on a walk.
- Memories of a trip to the aquariums, which are inhabited by rare inhabitants of cold and warm seas, according to tourists, remain in memory for a long time.
- Zoological Museum introduces the fauna of the peninsula. Various species of birds and fish, reptiles and mammals are painstakingly collected and systematized here.
On the peninsula you can visit palaces, medieval fortresses, mosques, temples, caves, monuments of the battles of the Great Patriotic War. Lots of interesting andthe museums of Crimea hide the mysterious. Photo and video shooting, according to tourists, are allowed almost everywhere.
