Οι Έλληνες της Ρωσίας τον 19ο και στις αρχές του 20ού αιώνα
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The number of Greeks living in Russia increased considerably in the nineteenth
century, as they fled the various forms of oppression inflicted upon them in the
Ottoman Empire.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century organised Greek communities started
to spring up, and they became increasingly active in the communal, commercial,
ecclesiastic, educational, social, and cultural spheres.
In the hospitable environment of the Russian Empire, "our brother the Greek",
as the Russians called him, embarked upon a wide variety of activities in communities
with special privileges (such as Ne2in) and in the Black Sea's free port of Odessa. All
the Greeks enjoyed the official policy of "protection" and the special affection the
average Russian felt for the enslaved Christians of the Balkans. It was in this climate
that the Filiki Etaireia, the Greek Philanthropic Society, and the Greek Imperial
Subsidiary Committee began to function.
This paper examines the activities of the Greek element from the end of the
eighteenth century to the fourth decade of the twentieth century. Specifically, it looks
into the structure of the Greek communities within which the Greek merchants,
artisans, landowners, teachers, clergy, scholars, academics, university professors,
national benefactors, patrons of the arts, diplomats, consular and other civil servants,
military and naval men, doctors, and masons lived and worked, and also includes within
its scope Greek literature published at the time, educational activity, and theatre.
Constantine PAPOULIDIS
THEMISTOCLES A. SOLOMOS: PATRIOTIC POEMS, 1889-98
While in the Soviet Union searching for written evidence on the activities of
Greeks there, I came across a manuscript collection of poems by Themistocles A.
Solomos. MS No 26 in the Gorky State Science Library in Odessa (Odesskaja
gosudarstvennaja nauénaja biblioteka im. A. M. Gor'kogo), it has 35 folios and dates
from 1899.
At the end of the nineteenth century, this unknown poet of the Greek Diaspora
was experiencing, in Odessa, the realignments taking place in the Balkans and his
fellow Greeks' efforts to join forces. They were to be vindicated later on by the Balkan
Wars of 1912-13.
The main theme of these six poems, which have never been published before, is
Freedom.
century, as they fled the various forms of oppression inflicted upon them in the
Ottoman Empire.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century organised Greek communities started
to spring up, and they became increasingly active in the communal, commercial,
ecclesiastic, educational, social, and cultural spheres.
In the hospitable environment of the Russian Empire, "our brother the Greek",
as the Russians called him, embarked upon a wide variety of activities in communities
with special privileges (such as Ne2in) and in the Black Sea's free port of Odessa. All
the Greeks enjoyed the official policy of "protection" and the special affection the
average Russian felt for the enslaved Christians of the Balkans. It was in this climate
that the Filiki Etaireia, the Greek Philanthropic Society, and the Greek Imperial
Subsidiary Committee began to function.
This paper examines the activities of the Greek element from the end of the
eighteenth century to the fourth decade of the twentieth century. Specifically, it looks
into the structure of the Greek communities within which the Greek merchants,
artisans, landowners, teachers, clergy, scholars, academics, university professors,
national benefactors, patrons of the arts, diplomats, consular and other civil servants,
military and naval men, doctors, and masons lived and worked, and also includes within
its scope Greek literature published at the time, educational activity, and theatre.
Constantine PAPOULIDIS
THEMISTOCLES A. SOLOMOS: PATRIOTIC POEMS, 1889-98
While in the Soviet Union searching for written evidence on the activities of
Greeks there, I came across a manuscript collection of poems by Themistocles A.
Solomos. MS No 26 in the Gorky State Science Library in Odessa (Odesskaja
gosudarstvennaja nauénaja biblioteka im. A. M. Gor'kogo), it has 35 folios and dates
from 1899.
At the end of the nineteenth century, this unknown poet of the Greek Diaspora
was experiencing, in Odessa, the realignments taking place in the Balkans and his
fellow Greeks' efforts to join forces. They were to be vindicated later on by the Balkan
Wars of 1912-13.
The main theme of these six poems, which have never been published before, is
Freedom.
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