Twenty-five years ago bought 22 watercolors A.Lafera 1880 , trying to find something about the author, yet managed to learn a bit : " ... Richelieu ceived the idea of the former rulers of Crimea , Nogai Tatars , still roamed the peninsula , turned into settled farmers . in this difficult job helped him a lot Count Jacques de Maisons Lafer also fled from France during the revolution. He built a mosque in different places , which gradually emerged about the settlement, surrounded by fields and orchards . Tatars began to sell the land of Azov and the Kerch ; sale them , as well as wool and sheep give them the correct income and gradually accustomed to the settlement. Sam Mason lived on the shore of the Sea of Azov , the Tatar settlements facing the township named Nogaisk . He built a small botanical garden and fruit , which had up to ten thousand fruit trees , and lived thirty years of Nogai Tatars without receiving any remuneration from the Treasury . "
http://lady-rumina.livejournal.com/122108.html I think that it is the ancestor of the author. Maybe somebody can supplement what is ?