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Sagallo or Sagallou (Russian: Сагалло) (Caxaππoy) was a location in Djibouti, on
the northern coast of the Gulf of Tadjoura, and was the only Russian attempt to
establish a colony in Africa, a New Moscow. Russian Nikolaj Ivanovič Ašinov
(also transcribed Aschinow, Achinov or Achinoff) and the monk Paisi, with about
200 people in tow - including priests, women and children - occupied the
abandoned fortress, on which they hoisted the Russian flag with a yellow
saltire.
Pietrokarol Santangelo, 26 May 2024
On December 10, 1888, the ship Kornilov left Odessa with 175 people on board, of which 30 were Cossacks (some engineers), 12 Cherkess, 4 monks, and the rest peasants. They were trying to establish a colony in Somalia and establish ties with Ethiopia. The Cossack Ashinov led the expedition together with the monk Paissi. On January 18, 1889 they arrived at Sagallo, an old Egyptian fort near Tadjoura. The Abyssinians received the expedition members cordially and a Russian envoy left for the Abyssinian capital and Emperor John IV himself asked the Russians to establish a colony because he hoped to use them against the Italians.
The operation did not please the French established in Obock. The Russians,
to calm French apprehensions, requested to raise the flag designated for the
colony and the French flag together, but the local Danakil tribe, strongly
opposed to the French, rejected this possibility. in the end, only the red cross
flag was raised next to the flag of Russian Somalia, which was the Russian flag
with a yellow saltire superimposed on it. It seems that the Russians made some
inappropriate demands of the French, so Admiral Olry, commanding a ship in the
Gulf of Tadjoura, asked the Russians to leave the colony. The Russians refused
and ships of both sides exchanged fire. Shortly afterward the Russians
surrendered and were taken under arrest to Obock.
Jaume Ollé,
26 May 2024
From:
https://d-34.livejournal.com/56776.html
"Используя договоренности с
местными князьками, он занял заброшенный турецко-египетский форт Сагалло,
который до этого формально принадлежал Франции, поднял в нем российский флаг и
объявил все земли вдоль моря на 100 и вглубь континента на 50 верст
российскими."
"Using agreements with local princelings, [Nikolay Ivanovich
Ashinov] occupied the abandoned Turkish-Egyptian fort of Sagallo, which
previously formally belonged to France, raised the Russian flag in it and
declared all the lands along the sea for 100 and inland for 50 versts Russian."
And at:
https://stihi.ru/diary/gloria4/2017-05-03 and on Russian Wikipedia:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/
(although the dubious flag is shown)
"Форт Ашинов провозгласил русским и
окрестил Новой Москвой, или станицей Московской, и сказал, что «пятьдесят вёрст
по берегу и сто вглубь — русская земля». 28 января подняли русский флаг."
Ashinov proclaimed the Fort as russian and renamed it New Moscow, or the village
of Moscow, and said that “fifty miles along the coast and a hundred inland the
land is Russian.” On January 28, the Russian flag was raised."
"шиновцы
построили походную парусиновую церковь в честь святого Николая, подняли флаг
религиозной миссии и торговый флаг."
The Ashinovites built a canvas church in
honor of St. Nicholas, raised the flag of the religious mission and the merchant
flag.
"Над Сагалло в качестве белого флага подняли рубаху — Ашинов и
поселенцы были арестованы французами."
A shirt was raised over Sagallo as a
white flag - Ashinov and the settlers were arrested by the French.
Olivier Touzeau, 3 June 2024