Поиск по блогам

From the Russian Empire and Abyssinia to the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Ethiopia

... Africa. From the Russian Orthodox Church side, Archimandrite Porfiry Uspensky - the head of the Russian Orthodox spiritual mission in the Holy Land, conveyed deep interest to Ethiopia. In 1866, in the article "Russia's Participation in the Fate of Abyssinia", he submitted a plan for rapprochement between the two countries to government authorities. There were also notable activities of doctors from the Russian Red Cross Society, who helped the wounded after the Italo-Ethiopian war. Russian ...