Для памяти и назидания
Оставлю здесь отрывок из воспоминаний Oswyn Murray Balliol College, Oxford:
In September 1996 I was invited to tour the sites of the Crimea by my former pupil Raymond Asquith, British attaché at the Ukrainian embassy (and himself a major protagonist in the Cold War, whose ancestor had taken part in the ‘charge of the Light Brigade’ during the Crimean War, and returned with a captured Russian musket, which is still in the family).
Together we visited the classical sites of the Crimea at a time when the archaeological service was deprived of virtually all funds: I was amazed at the dedication of archaeologists who were working without regular pay to preserve one of the greatest collections of classical sites in the world: in particular I think of one young girl who was spending the winter in a pair of metal shipping containers at the site of Kalos Limen, supplied only with food from a friend at the local collective farm, in
an attempt to prevent the peasantry from stealing the foundation stones to use as hard
core in the entrances to their fields: she said it was better than being an out-of-work secretary. We also met the staff of the museum and site at Chersonesos, surviving in their historic monastery only because of a dispute between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches. A second visit with Raymond in 2013 occurred just before the Russian annexation of the Crimea
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Boris Johnson was one of his students when he was reading Classics at Balliol College. He describes Johnson as "a buffoon and an idler". In 2018, when Johnson became prime minister, Murray sent his former student, in the ancient tradition, a renuntiatio amicitiae, a public revocation of their friendship.
In September 1996 I was invited to tour the sites of the Crimea by my former pupil Raymond Asquith, British attaché at the Ukrainian embassy (and himself a major protagonist in the Cold War, whose ancestor had taken part in the ‘charge of the Light Brigade’ during the Crimean War, and returned with a captured Russian musket, which is still in the family).
Together we visited the classical sites of the Crimea at a time when the archaeological service was deprived of virtually all funds: I was amazed at the dedication of archaeologists who were working without regular pay to preserve one of the greatest collections of classical sites in the world: in particular I think of one young girl who was spending the winter in a pair of metal shipping containers at the site of Kalos Limen, supplied only with food from a friend at the local collective farm, in
an attempt to prevent the peasantry from stealing the foundation stones to use as hard
core in the entrances to their fields: she said it was better than being an out-of-work secretary. We also met the staff of the museum and site at Chersonesos, surviving in their historic monastery only because of a dispute between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches. A second visit with Raymond in 2013 occurred just before the Russian annexation of the Crimea
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Boris Johnson was one of his students when he was reading Classics at Balliol College. He describes Johnson as "a buffoon and an idler". In 2018, when Johnson became prime minister, Murray sent his former student, in the ancient tradition, a renuntiatio amicitiae, a public revocation of their friendship.
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