Teranodon Visioneering

"Teranodon" is the way to say "Pteranodon" -- the name of a huge winged creature Pteranodon that saw the world develop over a hundred million years. This is the section on:

Imperial South Russia (Novorossiya), i.e. Northern Black Sea Region, with special attention to German settlement in Krim (Crimea), Taurida Oblast, 1804 to 1920.

From the mid 16th to early 19th centuries Imperial Russia conquered the region north of the Black Sea and ruled it until 1918 as the "South Russia" or "Novorossiya (New Russia)" region of its vast empire  --  50 times the size of Britain  --  that extended from Germany to the Pacific Ocean and submerged more than a hundred nationalities.  Imperial Russia administered South Russia  --  a region similar in size to Britain.   with the provinces of Bessarabia, Kherson (including Odessa), Taurida (including Crimea), Ekaterninoslav, and the Territory of the Don Cossacks. To the north were the historic Ukrainian lands that Imperial Russia administered as "Little Russia", with the provinces of Kiev, Poltava, Kharkov, and Chernigov, plus those in "West Russia" that it administered with the provinces of Podolia and Volhnynia.  Southeast was "Caucasia", with Kuban province in its northwest.   To the east was "East Russia" with the provinces of Saratov and Astrakhan in the south.

For puposes of this project the region north of the Black Sea is within the borders of the provinces of Imperial South Russia from Bessarabia to Ekaterninoslav, plus the Rostov portion of the Territory of the Don Cossacks, as well as the western potion of Kuban in Caucasia. Modern boundaries do not correspond precisely with the Imperial provinces, but the area generally corresponds to Moldava, the Ukrainian oblasts of Odeska, Mykolaivska, Kirovohradska, Khersonska, Krymska, Zaporizhska, Dnipropetrovska, and Donetsk, and the Russian provinces of Rostov and Krasnodar.

Life in Late Imperial South Russia, i.e. the Northern Black Sea Region from Bessarabia to Rostov and the Kuban was similar in many ways to life anywhere in the vast Russian empire, but there were differences. I invite your comments on my draft sketch of

LIFE IN LATE IMPERIAL SOUTH RUSSIA.

The lands north of the Black Sea were a home for many peoples other than the Ukrainians and Russians who now dominate the region. Indeed, Russians and Ukrainians did not even begin to settle the region until the late 18th century. The commonly accepted history of this region was filtered through the lens of Russian imperialism until the collapse of the Soviet system. The emergence of Ukraine and Moldova as independent countries and the return of descendants of Crimean Tatars deported by Stalin have provided alternative intepretations. But their revisonist histories of the region also suffer from ethnocentric bias. I invite your comments on my draft sketch of

HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA REGION FROM ANCIENT GREEK TO RUSSIAN ERAS.

History is continuously reconstructed not only to meet the needs of different nationalities but also to fit ideological perspectives and each generation's version of "political correctness". After comparing history written by earlier generations we can often be surprised to find that in some respects it is more perceptive than that written by contemporary historians. I have assembled some texts, including excerpts from my 1910-1911 "Handy Volume" American eleventh edition of the Enclopaedia B... The copyright for this edition has expired in the U.S. (where this website is hosted) and in Canada (where it is authored). I understand that the modern edition's publisher takes trademark infringement action against use of its name. Accordingly this website publication does not credit the Encyclopedia with its full name. The following texts are now available:

CRIMEA
By Prince Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin and John Thomas Bealby, Enclopaedia B..., eleventh edition (1910-11), vol VII, pp. 449-50.

COSSACKS ORIGIN
By Robert Nisbit Bain, excerpt from Poland article in Enclopaedia B..., eleventh edition (1910-11), vol XI, pp. 913-15.

SCYTHIA
By Ellis Hovell Minns, M.A., Enclopaedia B..., eleventh edition (1910-11), vol XI, pp. 526-29.

Pteranodon has produced several artistic interpretations of of Imperial Russian banknotes and postage stamps. They are edited versions of scans.

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN CURRENCY USED IN LATE IMPERIAL SOUTH RUSSIA.
 

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