AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
At the beginning of the essay, Bashmakov explains that the past spring he travelled to the Sennar region and the White Nile in order to collect materials on the history and ethnography of North-Eastern and Central Africa […]
Bashmakov, A.A.: Nubia and Egypt 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 »