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Abraham Hanibal - Prince of Logone, Pushkin's African Ancestor (Hardcover)
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Abraham Hanibal - Prince of Logone, Pushkin's African Ancestor (Hardcover)
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Hanibal [1697- 1761] was probably the most outstanding African in
Europe in the 18th Century, his rags to riches life, and the fact
that he was the great grandfather of Russia's greatest writer,
Alexander Pushkin, makes him of even greater interest. Now finally
appearing in English, this was the book, based on original
research, which proved fairly conclusively that Hanibal (sometimes
spelt Gannibal in English) was born in Logone-Birni, in present day
Cameroon rather than, as was supposed, in Ethiopia. This book
recounts his life story: he was taken as a slave to Istanbul and
then to Russia at the age of 8. Tsar Peter the Great and adopted
educated him. He was sent to study mathematics and military
engineering in France, where he joined the French army fighting
against Spain and was promoted to the rank of captain. Back in
Russia: he was promoted but was briefly exiled to Siberia where he
designed fortresses on the frontier. His first marriage was a
disaster but he went on to marry a Swedish aristocrat with whom he
had seven children, one of whom, Osip, was to be the grandfather of
Pushkin. There were moments in his life when he suffered for being
black, yet he ended his life as a pillar of the Russian
aristocracy, even owning serfs. Hanibal's contribution to the
technical advancement of the Russian army was huge. He was
commander-in-chief, director of fortifications and head of the
engineering corps. In 1725-26 he published an important text book
on geometry and fortification for engineering students and he
introduced the study of civil engineering into the Russian schools
of military engineering.
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