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At the beginning of die 19th century, in a context in which Eastern Europe drew most of die media's attention, the means of communication provided die public opinion with images and news from this region. The Russian-Romanian-Turkish War (1877-1878), also known as Romania's Independence War, sparked a lot of interest abroad, due to the considerable number of military observers and artists sent as war correspondents and accredited by die belligerent parties. We will make extensive 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 widi contributions from war correspondents and artists-illustrators, some attracted by die landscape and the urban environment (Ladislaus Eugen Petrovits, Themistoclcs von Eckenbrecher), others by the combatants' faces and appearance (Auguste Lançon), odiers by die uniforms, military equipment and war scenes (Dick de Lonlay, Johann Nepomuk Schönberg), or by the inhabitants' way of life and activity (José Luis Pcllicer). We can also mention the following illustrators who depicted 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 tiiat 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]