D'Archangel au golfe Persique : aventures de cinquante Français en Perse by Zavie
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"D'Archangel au golfe Persique" by Émile Zavie is a travel memoir and historical account written in the early 20th century. It follows a French medical mission of about fifty men as they journey from France through Britain and the Arctic to northern Russia, then across revolutionary Russia toward the Caucasus and Persia. Narrated in the first person, it blends sharp reportage with lively portraits—among them the jovial “Captain Treuleuleu,” the steady Marcel
Benoit, and the fervent revolutionary Yvan Yvanovitch—against a backdrop of mutinous armies, popes and icons, and collapsing authority. The opening of the book traces the mission’s departure via Liverpool on a cargo ship reflagged for the Red Cross, threading past submarines, fog, the Arctic circle, and the midnight sun while mingling with Russian repatriates and hearing a Maximalist’s blistering critique of France’s role in 1905. After a stop at Murmansk and arrival in Archangel, the narrative dwells on stations choked with deserters, grimy buffets, and the lethargic, chaotic machinery of revolution. A long rail journey south brings vivid scenes of Vologda’s convents and icons, Jaroslavl on the Volga, and Moscow’s brasseries, Kremlin relics, and street meetings—along with wary encounters with cadets and “delegates.” The train then rolls through Tsaritsyn, the Cossack and oil country of Grosny and Derbent, swarming with ticketless deserters, before reaching Tiflis, where the collapse of military discipline is plain and the French are finally quartered in a hospital. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zavie, Émile, 1884-1943 |
|---|---|
| Title | D'Archangel au golfe Persique : aventures de cinquante Français en Perse |
| Original Publication | Paris: A la cité des livres, 1927. |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia |
| LoC Class | D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918) |
| Subject | Middle East -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Iran -- Description and travel |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French |
| Subject | Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78405 |
| Release Date | Apr 9, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 365 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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