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Lady Elizabeth Craven traveled to many countries of Europe from 1785 to 1786, as well as the Crimean and Ottoman lands. Throughout this one-year journey she wrote with her sixty-eight letters, in literary, to Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, duke of Prussia, her observation. Craven began writing her letters in France and ended up in Vienna. And then the Duke of Prussia turned to Charles Alexander. Her letters contain many topics on nature, human relations, commercial life, women, men, clothing, structures, streets, villages, animals, cemeteries, beliefs and traditions. Craven, who does not neglect to make notes about the history of the countries she traveled during her journey, first referred to the history of this geography in a letter she wrote in Moscow before arriving in Crimea. She stayed in Crimea between 12 March and 20 April 1786. She visited cities and towns such as Kherson, Perekop, Karasubazar, Balaklava, Aqmescit, Kefe, Sevastopol, Bahçesaray, Sudak, İnkerman, Baydar and usually rested in the homes of prominent nobility and military members of the city. Many meals and meetings were organized for Craven. During the Kherson trip, the Czarina II. Katerina’s favorite commanders was guests at Prince Potemkin’s house. Craven thought about positive things about him. She had positive and negative judgments about Tatars and Cossacks. As long as she stayed there, had a journey with a horse cart called kibitka. From time to time, she riding Cossack horses, which she admired. During her journey in Crimea she told all of her experiences in nine letters wrote to the Prince of Prussia. This work written towards the end of the 18th century is important. Because this work presents the political, economic, and social characteristics of the travelling countries. However, this work is about the Crimea that the Ottoman Empire lost after the war and which had to sign The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. Aimed to present the human and partly political aspects of Crimea from an British point of view.

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