sentences:  According to Filipp Vigel, the viceroy's court in Odessa looked like a "small capital of an imperial fürst".While many Neoclassical buildings appeared in Odessa, the Crimea (or Taurica, as it was then better known) was still perceived as a wild, exotic hinterland.The mid-1820s saw the appearance of highly popular Romantic works celebrating its rugged beauty, such as Alexander Pushkin's poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" and Adam Mickiewicz's "Crimean Sonnets".