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Some suggestions of Gourzuf - Yalta:
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Gourzuf with many-storeyed buildings and dwelling houses stretches
along the banks of river Avounda. Sanatorium "Pushkino",
boarding house of artists named by Korovin, sanatorium of the Ministry
for Defense with magnificent park created at the end of XIX century
are located here. The park's sightseeing is the fountains
"Night" and "Rachel". Gourzuf is connected with
name of A, Pushkin who spent here three weeks in 1820 with family of general
N.Rayevski. Even today you can see this house, where the young poet
has lived and where in 1989 museum dedicated to staying of A. Pushkin
in Gourzuf and in Crimea was opened. Annually in the birthday of the
great poet in Gourzuf there is poetic holiday- Pushkin's reading.
A. Griboyedov, Adam Mitskevich, N. Nekrasov, A. Chekhov, I. Aivazovski,
I. Repin, V. Surikov, M. Musorgski, F. Shaliapin, A. Gorki and other
outstanding figures of the literature and art visited Gourzuf in
different time.
Here in VI century a fortress Gorzuvity was constructed and the
byzantian, Arabian and Genoa sources testify about this. Merchant
Afanasi Nikitin has mentioned about it. The remains of this fortress
have preserved on the Genoa rock.
The
settlement Gurzuf (from a latin word «urzus» - a bear) is located in
one of the most beautiful valleys of Crimea which. crossed by mountain
amphitheater by the river Avinda. The valley is connected to the sea
with a small gulf. To the west of Gurzuf the cape Martjan, to the east
- mountain Ajudag (Bear-mountain) became a symbol of South coast
towers. Ruins of fortress Gorzuvity built in VI century are located on
rock.
In Gurzuf there is a Chekhov's house, the House of creativity by
Korovin, a Pushkin`s museum.
Gurzuf is well-known also for the
park created in 1803. On its small, rocky site exotic plants grow. In
park it is a lot of fountains among which the fountain «Night» like
as brought here from one of the areas of the Vein. Near to a southern
gate of park it is possible to see the whole sculptural gallery: Adam
Mickiewicz's busts, Lesia Ukrainka, Feodor Shalyapin, Anton Chekhov,
Maxim Gorky, and Vladimir Majakovsky.
In Gurzuf, from the western side of mountain Ajudag, there is an
International children's center «Artek».
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