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Caucasian Mineral Waters become a state resort

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1803 · Pyatigorsk · Eastern Europe & Russia · Culture

Alexander I makes the Caucasus springs a matter of state

On 24 April 1803 Alexander I signed a rescript recognising the 'national significance of the Caucasian Mineral Waters' and the need to develop them, the date now taken as the resort's birthday. Ibn Battuta had described the Pyatigorsk springs in the 14th century; in the 19th, Pushkin and Lermontov came to take the waters.

State: Russian Empire

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