AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
In the introduction, Zviagin explains that he decided to write an essay on Ethiopia based on his observations in the country, since only incomplete, fragmentary or untruthful material had been circulating in Russia up to that point […]
Zviagin K.S.: Essay on Modern Abyssinia. Personal Observations 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 »
The account of Vasilii Junker’s expedition to Africa was published in the 23rd volume of the Report of the Russian Geographical Society for 1887, in the section titled “Geographic News”. The article bears a subtitle: “Read at the official assembly of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society on April 9, 1887”. In the opening, the author claims that this is his second journey to Africa […]
Junker, V.V.: Report on a Seven-Year Journey through Equatorial Africa Read Post »
According to the author’s preface, this should have been the first of five instalments aimed at popularising knowledge on world population, especially from an ethnographic point of view. The other four volumes would have covered Oceania, Asia, the Americas and Europe (with a special focus on its rural population) […]
Koropchevskii, D.A.: People. Ethnographic Essays. Black People: Africa Read Post »
The textbook, at its eleventh edition (reprinted without alterations), is divided into four parts, each devoted to the description of Africa, Australia, America, and Asia, respectively. These sections are preceded by an author’s foreword, where he states that the purpose of the textbook is to incorporate the latest research in Geography and Ethnography into Russian educational literature […]
Turchakovskii, K.I.: Textbook of General Geography Read Post »
Lev Tsenkovskii’s account of his journey to Sudan was published in the third Report of the Russian Geographical Society for 1850, in the section titled “Readings at the Assembly”. In the introduction, the author states that two years prior, the Russian Geographical Society had commissioned him to accompany Colonel Kovalevskii on a journey to Central Africa […]
Tsenkovskii, L.S.: Report on the Journey in North-Eastern Sudan Read Post »
The essay was published in “Zapiski Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo obshchestva” in 1850 (p. 168-223). It bears two subtitles: “From a letter to V. V. Grigor’ev” and “Read at the assembly on March 2, 1849” […]
Rafalovich, A.A.: Ethnographic Notes About the Inhabitants of Southern Nubia Read Post »
The volume includes a map of Egypt and a preface, in which the author illustrates the circumstances of his travel: he left Saint Petersburg on a government mission in February 1846, and, after visiting Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, he returned to Russia in November 1848 […]
Rafalovich, A.A.: A Journey Through Lower Egypt and the Inner Regions of the Delta Read Post »