AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
Mikhail Bernov’s travel notes include the author’s portrait, biography, and fifty-two photographs. The book is divided into two main parts: the first part focuses on Spain, while the second, comprising fourteen chapters, combines travel notes about Algiers and the Sahara desert. […]
Bernov, M.A.: Spain, Algeria, and the Sahara Read Post »
Travel notes from Palestine and Egypt, divided into chapters according to the places the author visited. After Constantinople and Smyrna the author arrives in Alexandria, where he only stops for a day before getting on another ship to Jaffa. After “the pogrom made by the English” the city is being rebuilt, and looks clean and neat.
Chukmaldin, N.M.: Travel Notes from Palestine and Egypt Read Post »
The book consists of twenty-four chapters, a preface, and a conclusion. In the preface, the author explains that he was tasked with accompanying an expedition to study the tea regions of Asia as a naturalist and geographer in 1895 […]
Krasnov, A.N.: From the Cradle of Civilisation. Letters from a Journey Around the World Read Post »
The book features thirty-two illustrations of African landscapes and people. It is divided into nineteen chapters, prefaced by the author’s introduction and an initial overview of the journey’s circumstances. Chapters One to Nine report travelling around Europe, focusing on Warsaw, Vienna, the Austrian Alps, Italy, Venice, Italian Switzerland, and Marseille. Chapters Ten to Seventeen are devoted to African cities […]
Rutskii, P.G.: To the Oases of the Sahara and across Italy Read Post »
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 […]
Eliseev, A.V.: Around the World Read Post »
The author of these notes, presented in the form of an essay, asserts that the primary objective of this text is to represent contemporary Egypt […]
Veniukov, M.I.: Notes on Contemporary Egypt Read Post »
In 1892, the author decides to embark on a journey to Sudan with the aim of understanding the Mahdi religious movement and the Mahdist State. He asserts that this can be crucial for Russia due to the significant presence of a Muslim population within the Russian Empire.
Eliseev, A.V.: Mahdism and the Current State of Affairs in Sudan Read Post »
The book is divided into two main parts, and it is accompanied by a map of the author’s journey. In the introduction, Komstadius raises questions about the purpose of a tourist’s journal or travel notes, asserting that his book aims to offer practical information, rather than literary content […]
Komstadius, N.N.: Notes of a Tourist Read Post »
The book is a collection of travel notes that were published in 1891 in the journal “Vestnik Evropy”, with the addition of some previously unpublished material. In the preface, the author confesses that, being drawn to the East, he had managed to convince two wealthy friends to visit Palestine and Egypt […]
Kartavtsev, E.E.: Through Egypt and Palestine. Travel Notes Read Post »
The book is structured into two main parts: part one is dedicated to Constantinople and Greece, whereas part two is centred around Egypt. In the preface the author asserts that his travel notes are addressed at a broad audience […]