Abstract
1MPERIAL Russia's attempt to join mi the European scramble for Africa culminated in 1889 in a melodramatic fiasco on the coast of the Red Sea in Ethiopia. In January and February 1889 a Russian contingent of about one hundred and fifty Cossacks, including women and children, occupied the village of Sagallo, a miserable collection of hovels that baked on the inhospitable northern shore of the gulf of Tadjura. Their leader, Nikolai Ivanovich Ashinov, a Terek Cossack, pretentiously claimed the title Hetman of the Free Cossacks. The expedition had two objectives: to found an African colony-New Moscow-and to establish formal relations between the Holy Synod and the Ethiopian Coptic Church.
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