“It attracts women like honey attracts bees” Ethnographers about the Fountains of Crimea

In the old days, many girls and women gathered at the Crimean Cheshme fountains in the evenings. Ethnographer Gleb Bonch-Osmolovsky called these structures “a women’s club,” and Crimean scholar Evgeny Markov called them “the birthplace of heartfelt dramas.”