Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Chapter 491 003 Limited-time Archaeological Expert Solovyov

General Komnenos and his family lived in Yalta because it was where the Crimean Greeks lived.

Although the two old neighbors, the Celts and Scythians, are no longer active nearby, the Greeks have lived here for more than two thousand years since they landed on Cape Chersonesus, and the culture of Crimea has also been greatly influenced by the Greeks.

The broken stones under the Acropolis of Athens should also be found in Crimea. If we are unlucky, there might be some archaeological discoveries there.

After all, even the current ground buildings in Crimea have the characteristics of that period.

He would always have this impulse and tell his wife stories when he hugged her at night - after all, she was only 16 years old. In this era, she could get married and have children legally, but she was too young, so he would pat her on the back while telling her stories.

As for Crimea, both of them still remembered the story of Iphigenia, and other than that, they also knew the ins and outs of how the Greeks came here.

".And so, Iphigenia and her brother reunited in Taurica and returned to the Greek world together."

"But I always feel that this story is a little strange. Why must it be Taurica? Artemis obviously has temples in other places, so why is it here?"

"That must be a secondary or even tertiary creation. You have to know that in the Iliad, Iphigenia was sacrificed by her biological father Agamemnon, and the sacrifice was replaced by a deer by the moon god. The subsequent stories all come from the dramatic creations of the Athenians, and in our time, the purpose is also for propaganda."

"Why is it like this again, Mishka? You make the story very vivid, but why do the background stories have a purpose?"

As she spoke, she was still rubbing against Solovyov's arms, especially rubbing her belly against Solovyov's hand.

"What a dishonest little mermaid, you have feet, why do you always move like this, as if you were a fish?"

Before continuing to explain the story, he also began to caress little Katya and tried to make her stay in his arms.

"Mishka, you are so smart, like..."

"Don't say that," Solovyov said, covering her mouth. "I don't want to go out and fight for ten years, and then spend another ten years coming home to find someone courting my wife at the door. They are also destined to die in my hands because I am a good duelist."

Something like six people dying in one day would make headlines in Paris and be a hot topic for a month. I wonder if the Paris newspapers have recently reported that His Majesty the Emperor recognized a nephew in Tilsit - maybe this is not very important.

Katya realized that she had spoken out of turn by talking about Odysseus, so she calmed down a little, but she stretched out one leg again.

Solovyov had to hold her tightly and press her down into the quilt, then he pulled the quilt over his side and wrapped the two of them together.

"That's good. No matter how naughty you are, you can't move around. You can only stay in bed with me. Let's get to the point. We just mentioned the story of Iphigenia. It's like this. Athens and the Kingdom of Bosporus have always had a good relationship. Athens even imported grain from the Black Sea. The largest share of grain trade on the north coast of the Black Sea came from the Kingdom of Bosporus. It's really strange that Athens claims to be a democratic city-state, but it has a good relationship with a monarchy."

"Then Cupid and Psyche, are they also secondary creations?"

"Yes, the Romans especially like this. But then again, since we are here, we must go to Chersonesus and Feodosia. According to the records in the classics, the two largest city-states in Crimea are here, and the latter later became the capital of the Kingdom of Bosporus."

He really knew a lot, and little Katya's eyes were full of admiration.

A general does his job well and is also willing to do other people's work, and he has dabbled in several areas.

It's not that there aren't such people; they're just rare.

The deeper areas of the Crimean Peninsula are the territory of the Scythians. Although these nomadic peoples like this peninsula, they have always chosen a place in the north to roam and trade with coastal cities since ancient times.

If you look carefully at publications related to the Eastern Roman Empire, you will find that during the military district system period, the Kherson Military District here often did not control the entire peninsula, but only the cities in the southern part of the peninsula.

"That's interesting. I want to go to the beach. How about we go to Cape Khersones together?"

"Of course, but don't think about swimming. Although the Black Sea is a 'hospitable sea', the waters here are still undeveloped, unlike the beaches in Petersburg or other places. Besides, if my wife wants to bathe in the sea, I can only watch her."

This girl, relying on her good physical strength, is indeed... What Solovyov is more worried about is that the sea water temperature is dropping now, and it is not suitable to swim in the sea.

Besides, I've never heard of any wife who is pregnant (no matter how many months old) going to the sea to take a bath in this kind of weather.

Louisa was swimming in the Royal Aquarium in the summer and was wrapped up tightly.

This tiger girl
Although Solovyov wanted to complain about her, he didn't know where to start.

And to go to the beach, you always have to invite some companions. Little Katya invited the four girls from the Komnenos family to go to the cape to play together.

As for Solovyov, he didn't want little Katya to be too far away from him, so he told the girls not to play too crazy and just find a place on the beach.

As for him, he actually saw some ruins on the top of the cape, but they were all broken walls, with some Corinthian columns exposed.

"You girls are all walking barefoot like this, aren't you afraid of pricking your feet? If you hurt your feet, I'll have to find a doctor for you."

"But it's very comfortable to walk like this, Mishka."

"You are not village girls who walk barefoot all the time and have already adapted to the ground. You girls are all raised at home. Even if you have practiced dancing, the calluses on the soles of your feet are not like those of those girls." What's more, the sand on the beaches nearby is relatively coarse, and it always hurts your feet.

After hearing what he said, Katya and the maids from the Komnenos family put on their shoes.

As the five girls went for a walk, he could also take a shovel and dig up the soil to take a good look. Geological knowledge was sometimes useful, especially the soil quality on the battlefield, which was crucial for building positions.

It is also difficult to dig trenches on frozen soil, so the Vauban siege method will have to be transferred to semi-shallow trenches on the ground.

After he dug up a section of the soil, he did get some satisfactory results and even dug out a pillar.

"But my Greek is so poor. What is written here?"

Although those girls were all from the Komnenos family, their father had always lived in Venice and Austria and later came to Russia. The girls' Greek language proficiency was only average.

Solovyov couldn't invite the pregnant Mrs. Komnenos, so he thought of some ways. After all, he could recognize all the letters, so he copied them down here.

You should know that epigraphy is not exclusive to the Chinese. In vast areas of the Eurasian continent, various scripts have always been a prominent subject in archaeology.

However, the Egyptian language has not yet been deciphered, and the cuneiform language has only inscriptions on cliff carvings within the Persian Empire that can be used to decipher it. Many ancient texts are still dormant.

But as for Greek, whether it is the church or the Greek communities in various countries, there are still many people who can read and write.

Even in the case of Egyptian writing, although the hieroglyphics have not yet been deciphered and Champoleon has not yet made his mark, the Copts are still using this language, but the hieroglyphics, a relatively special "hieroglyphic script", has been lost.

But the obelisks and murals exposed outside can explain something.

Therefore, it is not that there is no way to crack it.

Solovyov could understand some of the words in the passage he got, but he still couldn't understand most of it, so he took it back to show the Komnenos.

"Ah, you are really thoughtful. You even thought of doing this on your honeymoon trip."

"Katya wanted to play on the beach, and I couldn't let her out of my sight too far. The environment at the cape is pretty good. By the way, I also copied these inscriptions."

After all, General Komnenos' wife was born into a high-ranking Greek noble family in the Ottoman Empire, so she knew something, but not much.

But she also roughly knew that what was written on it was an article written during a sacrificial ceremony.

"It's probably dedicated to the goddess Demeter, and it means praying for good weather after the sacrifice. Oh, it reminds me of the time when I hired a tutor to come to my house when I was a child. At that time, we were still in Constantinople."

In fact, the Greeks were more worthy of independence, but because there were always too many idle princes in the German countries, the major powers generally would not directly form an alliance or send one of their own relatives to take office in a foreign country. Later, among the independent kingdoms in the Balkans, except for Serbia and Montenegro, which had local monarchs, the rest of the monarchs were outsiders.

Even if we look at the whole of Europe, the more original royal family may still be the brainless Bourbon. After all, they are a branch of the Capetian family, and the Habsburgs were driven out of the Swiss mountains by their fellow villagers.

From this perspective, Solovyov felt that he should indeed make some plans. He had friends who had connections with Greece, such as Mikhail Dolgorukov. His father had once gone to Greece to lead the locals in fighting against the Ottoman Empire's expeditionary force.

As for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are also officials from Greece. There is also a considerable Greek community in the Russian Empire, which is widely distributed in the mountains from Crimea to the Caucasus.

Yes, although the proportion of Greeks in these places dropped significantly in later censuses, if a survey had been conducted in 1807, the conclusion would obviously have been different.

This situation occurred, and later Turkey and Greece went to war, and they cleared each other's personnel. In addition, many Greeks in Asia immigrated, some to their hometowns in Europe, many to America, and some were even captured in North Korea and finally settled in China.
In short, they are scattered everywhere.

But if we want to find a suitable boss for the Greeks, it is obvious that the Germans cannot get it easy.

Solovyov had thought about this question, and he seemed to have forgotten that the empress had thought about it before him.

The name Alexander can be said to be related to Alexander Nevsky, but Constantine is different. This name is obviously directed towards Constantinople. It’s just that during her lifetime, the empress not only failed to get a king title for her old lover Prince Potemkin, but her grandson Constantine was also unlikely to become the master of this city.

However, there are more areas for maneuver when it comes to the Greek issue. The Greeks all know that the French are not very reliable. Although there are some British people willing to help, there are more thieves among them. So the Russians are more reliable on this issue.

The Queen was of German descent. When she married into St. Petersburg, she was more enthusiastic than the locals in protecting Orthodox Christians, and was also very active in Balkan affairs.

The more troublesome thing is that Austria has come to sabotage before, and there may be Austrians coming to sabotage in the future. At the same time, France is also relatively strong now.

To be honest, although Greece's existence as a republic is more in line with tradition, at a time when feudal landlords and capitalists are trying to be more low-brow than each other, having a royal family on top may still be of some use.

But this matter is just thought, it is better to study the things in front of him, maybe he can get something interesting.

Just like medieval scribes, they might have destroyed some books and used papyrus and parchment to keep accounts or copy something else, hiding the valuable text underneath.

It's not that there is nothing to do this winter. Solovyov feels that Crimea is a place of outstanding people and a place with great writers such as Chekhov. He should do something here and make some cultural contributions instead of letting people remember that he is just a soldier.

Many soldiers in the 19th century were willing to find a side job.

This was quite legitimate for him, as he could make plans for the ports and coastal areas while surveying Sevastopol, and at the same time he could get some work done.

It’s a pity that there are no excavators now.

(End of this chapter)