The Russian city of Odessos [Odessa] was a center of Hellenism from 1800 to about 1920. Many Greek merchants flourished there and some of them (notably Gr Maraslis or Marasleios Scholi fame) became major national donors and philanthropists.

I am attaching here a longer document written by A Zografos of Odessa and printed in Skokos' Diary (Imerologion Skokou) in 1902. It is worth reading for its wealth of information about this city in the late 1800s but also about the contributions of her Greeks... There are also some very nice pictures in it.

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