Emperor Alexander II was the first to develop the picturesque Livadia area on the southern coast of Crimea. In 1861, he bought an estate there and built the Grand Palace as a gift to his wife.
Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in Crimea. The new finds indicate that the burial ground — the Almalyk-dere ...