Russian military doctors in Abyssinia

Abstract

The information about the participation of the Russian Red Cross Society sanitary detachment in Abyssinia during the First Abyssinian War in 1895–1896 is presented. Biographical information of military doctors of the Russian Red Cross Society detachment and the fi rst Russian diplomatic mission in Ethiopia is given. Military doctors conducted geographical and ethnographic studies, studied the fl ora of Ethiopia, its soils, the  features of local agriculture and tools.