AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
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 […]
Bashmakov, A.A.: History and Ethnography of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica Read Post »
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 […]
Berezin, N.I.: Africa. A Manual for Teaching Geography Read Post »
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 […]
Cheglok (Usov), A.A.: My Adventures in the Sahara and Northern Africa Read Post »
The book is a fictional travel diary by a Frenchman named Verdier, employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris […]
Bessel’ (Rubakina) L.A.: How I Travelled Through Abyssinia Read Post »
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 […]
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, […]
Brianchaninov, N.V.: East and West Read Post »
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 […]
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 […]
Petrov-Vodkin, K.S.: A Trip to Africa Read Post »
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 […]
Ermolaev, M.N.: Modern Irrigation and Cotton Production in Egypt Read Post »
At the beginning of the essay, Bashmakov explains that the past spring he travelled to the Sennar region and the White Nile in order to collect materials on the history and ethnography of North-Eastern and Central Africa […]
Bashmakov, A.A.: Nubia and Egypt Read Post »