 Some buildings currently in the palace were attached later, while some of the original buildings could not stand past the 18th century.In 2018 Russian authorities irreparably damaged the palace under tha guise of restoration work, as part of ongoing persecution of Crimean Tatars in Crimea.One courtyard contains a small fountain whose sad story so moved the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin when he visited it that he wrote a long narrative poem titled "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray".