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Gruzdev, F.S.: In the Country of Black Christians: Essays on Abyssinia

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 […]

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Eliseev, A.V.: From the History of Culture. Essay

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 […]

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Eliseev, A.V.: Around the World

The second volume of Eliseev’s travel notes is divided into thirty-two chapters, provided with illustrations by Nikolai Karazin and others. Chapters ten to seventeen are devoted to a trip through North Africa […]

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Petri, E.Iu.: V.V. Junker’s Travels Through Africa

The book is equipped with 158 illustrations, 1 map and 1 portrait. It is organised in eleven chapters, preceded by an introduction from the editor. The introductory section claims that despite being born in Moscow, the late explorer Wilhelm Junker had to publish his extensive works – a product of his journeys to Africa and scientific endeavours – in Europe […]

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Koropchevskii, D.A.: People. Ethnographic Essays. Black People: Africa

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) […]

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Andreevskii, V.M.: Egypt

The travel notes describe Andreevskii’s journey to Egypt in 1880-1881. The book is divided into nineteen distinct chapters, enriched, in its second edition, with 5 maps, 8 phototypes, 2 engravings, and 78 illustrations (first edition: 1884).

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Chistiakov, M.B.: Tales of Travels through Africa

The volume collects ten short stories set in Africa, published by Chistiakov in “Zhurnal dlia detei” over the course of the years. It includes: A trip to the isthmus of Suez, A few days in Madagascar, The murder of Henri Lambert […]

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Vyshcheslavtsev, A.V.: Essays in Pen and Pencil from a Journey around the World in 1857-1860

The book is divided into 9 chapters: The Atlantic Ocean, From the Cape of Good Hope, The Malaysian Sea, Hong Kong, From Vladimir’s Bay to Amur, From Edo, The Pacific Ocean, From Tahiti to Buenos Aires, Brazil and the Journey Back Home. Written in an engaging style, which drew parallels to Ivan Goncharov’s Frigate Pallada soon after its publication, the book provided the readers […]

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Blok, G.K.: Two Years in the Life of a Russian Sailor

The book describes the round-the-world voyage made in 1840-1842 on the Russian ship “Abo”. It is divided into two volumes, both supplemented with illustrations […]

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