inserimento, Autore presso AfTeR - The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)

Iurovetskii, M.I.: Angola. The Land Offered by Portugal to the Jews for Colonisation

The book features a foreword, a bibliography and a map, and it is organised into thematic chapters. In the foreword, the author addresses the prevalence of misinformation surrounding Angola, a Portuguese colony in Africa. Iurovetskii suggests that Angola might hold significance as a potential home for the Jewish population […]

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Bashmakov, A.A.: History and Ethnography of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica

The essay covers the history of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, with a brief incursion into Bashmakov’s days. After an introduction about the geography of the region, the author retraces the stages of historical settlements […]

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Berezin, N.I.: Africa. A Manual for Teaching Geography

Thought of as the first of a series (Asia, America, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Russia were meant to follow), according to Berezin’s introduction this manual was born out of necessity, as he had struggled to find a geography textbook suitable for young students, and reliable for teachers. It is divided into six chapters […]

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Cheglok (Usov), A.A.: My Adventures in the Sahara and Northern Africa

The book consists of ten short stories focused on birds and reptiles which can be seen in Northern Africa. They are written in the first person […]

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Bessel’ (Rubakina) L.A.: How I Travelled Through Abyssinia

The book is a fictional travel diary by a Frenchman named Verdier, employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris […]

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Averintsev, S.V.: Along the Coastline of the Dark Continent (From the Travel Notes of a Naturalist)

The travel notes are divided into four chapters, and are provided with five photographs (landscapes; Amani institute; Tengeni station). The first chapter contains descriptions of the city of Tanga and its population […]

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Brianchaninov, N.V.: East and West

Pages 119 to 150 of the book contain an essay devoted to Ethiopia, in which the author reflects on the recent history of the country under Menelik II’s rule. The essay starts with Menelik’s rise to power after defeating the Italian army in Adwa. The author goes on to discuss Ethiopia’s landscape, population, […]

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Belyi, A.

One of the main figures of the so-called “young generation” of Russian symbolists, Andrei Belyi (ps. of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) undertook a journey to Italy and Northern Africa with his partner Asia Turgeneva in 1910-1911 […]

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Petrov-Vodkin, K.S.: A Trip to Africa

In this piece, divided into fourteen short passages, Petrov-Vodkin offers the reader brief sketches from his trip to North Africa in 1907. A dreamlike quality […]

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Ermolaev, M.N.: Modern Irrigation and Cotton Production in Egypt

The book is divided into thirteen chapters, accompanied by an introduction, a conclusion, technical drawings, and a map. In the introduction, the author provides a brief historical overview of Egypt’s irrigation systems and mentions that he visited Egypt in 1908, a journey that enabled him to write this book. During his stay, with the cooperation of British engineers, Ermolaev visited all the major hydraulic structures in Egypt […]

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