Ismail Gasprinsky Memorial Museum

About museum

The house-museum of I. Gasprinsky is located in a former mansion that previously housed the editorial office of the newspaper 'Terciman — The Translator'. Ismail bey Mustafa-oglu Gasprinsky (20 March 1851 — 24 September 1914) was born into a family of an officer in the Russian service. He received his initial education at home and at school, and later at the Simferopol men's gymnasium, in Voronezh, and at the 2nd Moscow Military Gymnasium. In 1871 he went to France, and in 1879 he headed the local self-government bodies in Bakhchisaray. I. Gasprinsky published and edited the first Crimean Tatar–Russian newspaper 'Terciman — The Translator', as well as the women's magazine 'Alem-i-Nisvan' and the humorous magazine 'Kha-kha-kha'. In 1910 the French Academy of Sciences nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.