Yevpatoria (or Evpatoria) has been, successively, under Greek, Khazar, Mongol, Ottoman and Crimean Khanate rule. Once the Crimea was captured by Russia in 1783 it became part of the Russian Empire. For a very brief period in 1854, during the Crimean war, it was captured by the British and the French. Now it is a thriving Black Sea port and resort town in the Ukraine, which is in the news this week for trying to strengthen its ties with Europe rather than with Russia. Still then struggling to get out from under.
These may well be Greek tourists - at least the photograph ended up in a Greek stamp shop before finding its way to me and they are posed in front of a seascape instead of a formal setting. Rather grubby and on particularly thick card, the photograph gives me a strong sense of having survived many upheavals.
Cabinet photograph by Kotsenelenbogin, Evpatoria, Ukraine.
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