AfTeR – The African Text: Representing Africa in Imperial Russia (1850-1917)
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 […]
One of the main figures of the so-called “young generation” of Russian symbolists, Andrei Belyi (ps. of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) undertook a journey to Italy and Northern Africa with his partner Asia Turgeneva in 1910-1911 […]
In this piece, divided into fourteen short passages, Petrov-Vodkin offers the reader brief sketches from his trip to North Africa in 1907. A dreamlike quality […]
Petrov-Vodkin, K.S.: A Trip to Africa Read Post »
The essay is divided into five parts: Agriculture, Industries, Trades, Finances, Bases for Further Development of the Russian Protectorate System in the Khanate. Each topic is treated with respect to the situation in Bukhara and in Tunisia. […]
Upon the commission of the Orthodox Palestine Society, the author asserts undertaking a second expedition to the East to explore the Russian pilgrimage in the Holy Land. Starting from Palestine, the route extended through Greece, Italy, Sicily, and Malta, ultimately landing in Tripoli with the objective of visiting the Northern Sahara and the city of Gadames […]
Ispaniia. Alzhir. Tunis is a Russian translation of the book Espagne, Algérie et Tunisie published in Paris in 1880 and devoted to Petr Chikhachev’s scientific expedition to North Africa (1877-1878). It contains letters sent by Chikhachev to the French scientist Michel Chevalier […]
Chikhachev, P.A.: Spain, Algeria, Tunisia Read Post »