 The governorate included both the 25,133 km2 Crimea as well as 38,405 km2 of adjacent areas of the mainland.In 1826 Adam Mickiewicz published his seminal work "The Crimean Sonnets" after traveling through the Black Sea Coast.By the late 19th century, Crimean Tatars continued to form a slight plurality of Crimea's still largely rural population but there were large numbers of Russians and Ukrainians as well as smaller numbers of Germans, Jews (including Krymchaks and Crimean Karaites), Bulgarians, Belarusians, Turks, Armenians, and Greeks and Gypsies.