To the history of visits of members of an imperial family Romanov to «cave city» of Chufut-Kaleh in XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries

This publication analyses the question about the contacts between Crimean Karaites and the members of an emperor’s dynasty of Romanovs, and about visits of the members of an emperor’s dynasty in the “cave towns” Chufut-Kaleh in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. In literature this problem undeservedly misses scholarly attention and has not yet been studied in details. Especially interesting the problem is activity of Karaite’s clergy in the context of the construction of the Karaites’s ethnic and confessional identity. This paper is grounded on the materials from the files in the State Archive of the Republic of the Crimea, as well as the data from collected documents and artifacts of the period.