Incursión en la memoria de los lugares inmortalizados por artistas gráficos, reporteros bélicos en la guerra ruso-rumano-turca de 1877-1878

At the beginning of the 19th century, in a context in which Eastern Europe drew most of the media’s attention, the means of communication provided the public opinion with images and news from this region. The Russian-Romanian-Turkish War (1877–1878), also known as Romania’s Indepen dence War, sparked a lot of interest abroad, due to the considerable number of military observers and artists sent as war correspondents and accredited by the belligerent parties. We will make ex tensive reference to a work comprising a set of informative articles whose documentary value is enhanced by engravings which cover a wide array of topics. It is a collective volume with contri butions from war correspondents and artists-illustrators, some attracted by the landscape and the urban environment (Ladislaus Eugen Petrovits, Themistocles von Eckenbrecher), others by the combatants’ faces and appearance (Auguste Lançon), others by the uniforms, military equip ment and war scenes (Dick de Lonlay, Johann Nepomuk Schönberg), or by the inhabitants’ way of life and activity (José Luis Pellicer). We can also mention the following illustrators who depic ted scenes from the Russian-Romanian-Turkish war: Mathes Koenen, Emil Volkers and Friedrich Kaiser. There are also superb images capturing crucial moments of the conflict, whose author is the engraver Carol Popp de Szathmári (Károly Szathmári Pap). Our approach is an interdisciplinary one, given that it contains elements of geography, history, anthropology, sociology, geopolitics, economy and art, which turns it into an analysis of cordial geography, calligeography or beautiful geography