AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
The book presents Leonid Savelov’s travel impressions from his journey to Egypt, accompanied by photographic illustrations and divided into twelve chapters. The illustrations feature images of local architecture, both ancient and modern, as well as landscapes. The author’s style is literary and personal, offering reflections on the places he visits, his impressions […]
Savelov, L.M.: From Bosphorus to the Pyramids Read Post »
The book contains Gadenko’s travel notes about his journey from Nice to North Africa in 1913. The opening chapter illustrates the author’s first impressions of Algiers and its surroundings, which are overall positive and intriguing […]
The book was written as a result of a car journey of Andrei Nagel, Boris Nikiforov, and Evgenii Kuz’min (the author of the book) on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. It is accompanied by photographs and drawings made by Kuz’min himself. The book is preceded by two humorous epigraphs and the general tone of the narration is a rather humorous one, […]
Kuz’min, E.M.: Around Africa by Car Read Post »
Grinevskaia’s travel notes, recounting her journey through Egypt and the Middle East in 1910-1911, are part of an ongoing publication in “Ezhegodnik rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo Doma” […]
Grinevskaia, I.A.: A Journey to the Lands of the Sun Read Post »
In the introduction, the author of the article states that at a 1909 conference, Prof. Penck contradicted Prof. Grund regarding the presence of loess in North African desert areas. In his article, the author aims at clarifying this issue by explaining that […]
Dranitsyn, D.A.: A Note about Loess in North Africa Read Post »
In this book, Cherskii presents to his readers the coming-of-age story of a young orphan named Dzhami, who works as a helper for a poor fellah family near Rosetta. Initially leading a hard and miserable life, in the course of ten chapters Dzhami manages to climb the social ladder […]
Cherskii, L.F.: The Adventures of Dzhami. A Story from the Life of a Fellah Read Post »
The book includes photographic illustrations and an introduction where the author clarifies that these travel notes focus on the fauna of the places he visited, which are virtually unknown to the Russian reader due to the almost complete lack of specialised literature […]
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 full title of the play is The Priest of Osiris: The Mystery of the Pyramid of the Pharaoh Khаfre. One-act play in verse. The plot can be summarized as follows: Aira, widow of Pharaoh Khefre, is beloved by Osorkhon, a priest of Osiris, who, in a monologue, confesses his love for her. Aira prays in front of the statue of Osiris, mourning her husband, while Osorkhon secretly watches her.
Kotel’nikov, G.E.: The Priest of Osiris Read Post »
The essay covers the history of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, with a brief incursion into Bashmakov’s days. After an introduction about the geography of the region, the author retraces the stages of historical settlements […]
Bashmakov, A.A.: History and Ethnography of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica Read Post »