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100 1 _aZavie, Émile,
_d1884-1943
245 1 0 _aD'Archangel au golfe Persique
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-09
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: A la cité des livres, 1927
653 _aMiddle East -- Description and travel
653 _aIran -- Description and travel
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, French
653 _aRussia (Federation) -- Description and travel
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6543785z
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78405
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