AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)

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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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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 accompanied by five photographs (of landscapes, the Amani Institute and Tengeni Station). The first chapter contains descriptions of the city of Tanga and its population, comprised of “Europeans”, “Arabs”, “Indians” and “Negroes”. It also contains accounts […]

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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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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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