AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
The essay is divided into five parts: Agriculture, Industries, Trades, Finances, Bases for Further Development of the Russian Protectorate System in the Khanate. Each topic is treated with respect to the situation in Bukhara and in Tunisia. […]
This book is a thorough account of the Anglo-Boer War from the perspective of a Russian nursing sister, who volunteered in order to help the Boers’ cause […]
The book offers an account of the 1894-1895 expedition to Ethiopia led by Nikolai Leont’ev and Aleksandr Eliseev, through the eyes of the archimandrite Efrem […]
Efrem, archimandrite: A Journey to Abyssinia Read Post »
The book appears to be a rewriting of Lion Hunting and Sporting Life in Algeria by Jules Gérard (1854), targeted at a popular readership. […]
Gartman: In the Lion’s Claws. A Short Story Read Post »
The book includes the hunting notes of Aleksandr Eliseev, which he took after his journey to North Africa. The author shares recollections of his adventures, meetings with Arabs in little villages, descriptions of the African landscape and wildlife […]
Eliseev, A.V.: Lion Nights. About a Trip to North Africa Read Post »
This short book is a collection of memories about the author’s experience in Ethiopia. Glinskii recollects a pleasant meeting with Ras Makonnen, who asks the Russian sanitary team to stay in Harar since his army needs medical assistance and the city is full of sick people.
Glinskii, D.L.: The Life of a Russian Sanitary Unit in Harar Read Post »
The volume, consisting of 19 chapters, is a military account of the war between Ethiopia and Italy in 1895-1896, often providing information on international relations. Though it is mainly based on Nikolai Leont’ev’s documents gathered during his permanence in Ethiopia, in the preface the author declares that he has also made use of Italian sources. […]
The essay, which was presented before the members of the Kharkiv Medical Society in 1895, is an anthropological and anthropometric study of a group of twenty-two women from Dahomey, who arrived in Kharkiv […]
Favr, V.G.: Anthropological Notes on Dahomean Women Read Post »
The book contains fifteen illustrations, an author’s introduction, and it is divided into ten chapters. The illustrations include a map of the area, portraits of local inhabitants, images of local architecture and landscapes, and portraits of Russian travellers in Ethiopia. In the introduction, the author claims that after several unsuccessful Russian missions to Ethiopia […]
Gruzdev, F.S.: In the Country of Black Christians: Essays on Abyssinia Read Post »
The book bears the subtitle “Overview of the Ethnographic and Anthropological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (with twenty-six drawings from the photographs of K.K. Gil’tsen)”. In the introductory note, the author claims that the Ethnographic and Anthropological Museum is sadly virtually unknown to the public […]
Eliseev, A.V.: From the History of Culture. Essay Read Post »