Svetlana Goršenina
Claude Rapin

Les voyageurs francophones en Asie Centrale de 1860 à 1932
In: Cahiers du monde russe : Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique, États indépendants. Vol. 39 N°3. Juilletseptembre 1998. pp. 361-373.

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Goršenina Svetlana, Rapin Claude. Les voyageurs francophones en Asie Centrale de 1860 à 1932. In: Cahiers du monde russe
: Russie, Empire russe, Union soviétique, États indépendants. Vol. 39 N°3. Juillet-septembre 1998. pp. 361-373. doi : 10.3406/cmr.1998.2528 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1998_num_39_3_2528 Abstract
Svetlana M. Goršenina, Francophone travellers in Central Asia in the years 1860 to 1932. This article constitutes a preliminary report of research on the francophone historiography of Central Asia at the turn of the twentieth century. This research was conducted in collaboration with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, the CNRS team on Hellenism and Oriental Civilizations and the French Institute for Central
Asian Studies. A large amount of documentation (from archives, bibliographic resources, photographic archives) was collected for nearly all of the francophone travellers, scholars, and photographers who went to Russian (later Soviet) Central Asia between the beginning of Russian colonization and the closing of the frontiers in the 1930s. These travellers, with a few exceptions, fell into an unwarranted oblivion, or were presented in the Soviet historiography uniquely under the aspect of colonialism or espionage. This study attempts to reconstitute the historical environment of these travellers (their educational background, their personal motivations and those of their sponsors, the manner in which they were welcomed by the local authorities, etc.), as well as the political situation in Central Asia, particularly from the point of view of French interests in the region (commercial activities, political and
economic