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More on Greeks in Russia and the Russian trade" Part 1:Taiganion
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Πραγματικά ιστορικά κειμήλια οι φωτογραφίες και τα έγγραφα που παρουσίασε ο κ. Πέππας.
Ελπίζω πάντα να μας καταπλήσσει με τις παρουσιάσεις του.
Thank you very much my friend Toxoti. We too enjoy your wonderful pictures of old Liners and other items! It sounds like we are the same age...
I am appending below an excerpt from a Greek newspaper (I did not write down its name) that talks about ships coming to Piraeus from Russia in June 1905. The article mentions the uprising of Potemkin. Those not familiar with this very important page of the Russian history are urged to read at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles...emkin_uprising
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Of the cities mentioned, Taiganion (today's Taganrog, Таганро́г) was a very important city in the Greek-Russian history. Taiganion was on the very NE site of the Azof Sea, about 100 miles west of Rostov, therefore always in Russia and not in the Ukraine. In the beginning of the 20th century it had about 58,000 people (86,000 by 1928 ). The city had many Greeks and Jews and was a major commercial center. After the 1917 revolution, many Greeks remained in Taiganion and after 1922 many Pontians and other Greeks were added. The community is still active and the Greek ambassador in Moscow visited them just a year ago. Taganrog is also famous as the birthplace of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), the beloved Russian playwright whose theatrical plays were extremely popular in Athens between 1945 and 1975, especially in performances by Dimitris Myrat and Voula Zoumboulaki.
Here I show two postcards of the pre-revolutionary era showing Taganrog's theater and its (Russian Orthodox) cathedral of the Assumption (Analipsis)
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Of course the most famous Greek citizen of Taiganion was Ioannis Varvakis (Ivan Varvatski) who was known as a trader and then benefactor of Taiganion. His early contribution to the city was the Varvakios Mansion that became a Commercial School. The readers are reminded that Varvakis did the same in Athens establishing the Varvakios Scholi that was extremely popular as a high school in my days (is it still?). Here is the Varvakios Mansion in Taiganion in the 1870s!
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For more information on the life of Ioannis Varvakis, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Varvakis
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More on Greeks in Russia and the Russian trade" Part 2: Taiganion-Taganrog
Taiganion (today's Taganrog, Таганро́г) was a very important city in the Greek-Russian history. Taiganion was on the very NE site of the Azof Sea, about 100 miles west of Rostov, therefore always in Russia.
The city had a wonderful opera theater, built there in the 1860s for Italian opera. Its impressario was Gaetano Molla. Here is a playbill of Elena of Offenbach from the Taiganion Theater
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Two Greek sons of Taiganion became internationally known artists...
First, the Russian tenor David Yuzhin (1868-1923) was born here (although Kutsch and Riemens do not disclose the birth place simply stating "born in Russia"). His name was Dimitrios Bandekos but the family took the Russian name for assimilation. As a youth he sang in church choirs. He was professionally trained in St. Petersburg. Like many of his contemporaries, he gained experience by appearing in Harkovo, Odessa and other cities, although probably not in Taiganion. In 1901 he joined the Bolshoi Theater where he met his future wife, Nataliya Yermolenko-Yuzhina, another famous soprano. Numerous of their 78 rpm records exist, many of them transcribed in CDs. This writer has written a biography of David Yuzhin http://www.che.utexas.edu/research/biomat/bio/extra.htm that can be obtained upon asking. Here is David Yuzhin-Bandekos as Lionel in Marta of Flotow.
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The second was Dimitrios Synodinos, known in Russian as Dmitri Sinodi-Popov (Дмитрий Минаевич Синоди-Попов), a major Russian painter (1855-1910), active in Paris during his last few years. His house is still seen in Taganrog (see below). A nice biography can be found in the Russian Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%...B2%D0%B8%D1%87
His portraits of local Greeks are very well known: Portrait of Doctor Divaris, Greek Boy and An Old Greek
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