" Tavriia" = "Crimea"?

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues &  Prof Fisher:

My impression is that the Crimean Peninsula was formerly called "Tavriia."
Hence the hyphenated name of the famous Tsarist hero "Kniaz' Potemkin-
Tavricheskii" (18th cen.?), for whom Eisensteiin's battleship had been named. 
I.e., "Prince Potemkin of the Crimea"....

 (Compare also "Laurence of Arabia." "Semenov-Tiansianskii," etc.)

Best wishes to all,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:32:16 -0400
From: Anne Fisher <Anne.Fisher at WILLIAMS.EDU> 
Subject: philatelic help? 

Dear SEELANGers,

I have been asked to help decipher some cancelled Soviet stamps, but  
can't. To me the cancellation stamps look like they say "YALTATAVRG"  
and "CHECHERSKMOGIL" or "CHECHERSKMOGUL". The names of the two towns  
Yalta and Chechersk are clear enough, but what do the continuations  
mean?

Thank you for any leads, and I'd be happy to forward the scans  
themselves to any interested philatelists.

Anne O. Fisher
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Williams College
Department of German and Russian
995 Main Street, Weston Hall
Williamstown, MA  01267
anne.fisher AT williams.edu
office: 413.597.4723
fax: 413.597.3028
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:10:48 -0700
From: Olga Dobrunova <dobrunov at YAHOO.COM> 
Subject: Re: philatelic help? 

Hello Anne, 
 My guess is: 
 yaltatavrg - might be connected with Tavrichesky University organized in Yalta, or 
Tavrichesky Palace. 
 Checherskmogil - Chechersk is located in Mogilev Region (Belarus). 
 Of course, I am not sure about this - it is my guess only. Some hints can be given 
you by pictures on the stamps. 
   
 Olga Dobrunoff, 
 Montclair State University, NJ 
  
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:21:56 +0100
From: William Ryan <wfr at SAS.AC.UK> 
Subject: Re: philatelic help? 

Yalta used to be in the Tavricheskaia guberniya (TAVRG?). I don't know 
when this changed its name. What date is the stamp?
Will Ryan
 
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:21:12 +0200
From: Jon Kyst <kyst at HUM.KU.DK> 
Subject: SV: [SEELANGS] philatelic help? 

chechersk - mogilevskaia guberniia 
??????? - ?????????? ???????? 
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Yalta used to be in the Tavricheskaia guberniya (TAVRG?). I don't know 
when this changed its name. What date is the stamp? 
Will Ryan 
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