AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
Born into a Ukrainian noble family of Lithuanian descent, Vladimir (Volodymyr) Narbut was a Russian and Soviet poet and literary critic, a member of the Acmeist group. His relationship with Africa dates back to 1912, when he left Russia […]
Nikolai Gumilev, one of the founders of Russian Acmeism, travelled to Africa four times: while the first time he visited Egypt (1908), in the subsequent journeys he travelled to Ethiopia […]