AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
The aim of this pamphlet is to promote Helwan as a place for healing from different health issues and, especially, to advertise the sanatorium of doctor L. Kushnir. Built by the doctor in 1904, the sanatorium had progressively grown to include also a boarding house, a music hall, and a chemico-microscopy laboratory […]
Anon. – Helwan, Near Cairo. A Winter Sanatorium in the Country of the Pyramids Read Post »
The volume consists of Brovtsyn’s dissertation, written in order to obtain the title of doctor of medicine. It is an anthropological study of the inhabitants of the Shewa province in Ethiopia, equipped with tables reporting measurements of men, women and children […]
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 […]
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 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 author claims in the preface that the purpose of this book is not to entertain readers with her travel adventures, but to provide valuable information for individuals who are unwell and intend to move to Algeria for the winter. This information includes data about the climate in Algiers, as well as advice for those considering Algiers as a winter destination […]
L-va, I.N.: Algeria as a Winter Station. Notes for the Sick 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 »