
The Greek wholesale merchants of Russia developed considerable
charitable activity in both the regions of settlement and their
countries. Here: Portrait of Ioannis Varvakis who bequeathed all his possessions to the
Greek revolutionary government after his death in 1825.

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Portrait of I. Varvakis |
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Oil painting of an unknown painter.
Taganrog, Ethnological Museum.
Kardassis, Â., O Ellinismos tou Euxinou Pontou,
Militos publications, p. 19.
© Ethnological Museum, Taganrog.
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