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

Bulatovich, A.K.: With the Armies of Menelik. A Diary of an Expedition from Ethiopia to Lake Rudolf

The book is a detailed memoirs of Bulatovich’s participation in the expedition led by Ras Welde Giyorgis (1851-1918) to the newly acquired region of Kaffa and further south to Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana). The fact that these territories were largely unexplored was the main reason for Bulatovich’s interest […]

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Russkii strannik (Kochetov, E.L.): Christmas at Uncle Paul’s. Memories of a Stay in Pretoria, the Capital of the Boers

The narration begins with the author’s arrival in Cape Town, of which he praises the beauty, linking it to the civilisation introduced by the Europeans. Proceeding to Transvaal and then to Pretoria by train, he observes the dominance of Boers […]

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