About the book: 2015 / Based on little-known historical sources, Russian historian Dmitry Ivanovich Bagalei recreates a large-scale picture of Russia’s advance to the South, the development of Novorossiya , the formation of its original culture. For the first time this work, the subject of which, according to the author, “will be the area embracing the current Kherson, Ekaterinoslav and Tauride provinces (excluding Crimea in the latter), and known under the name of Novorossiya or Novorossiysk steppes,” was published in 1889 and since then was not reprinted, although it retained scientific significance thanks to the huge factual material.