Greek enlightenment in Southern Russia was a significant part of the overall enlightenment movement in the Hellenic world of the 18th - early 19th century. Its most important members were the prelates Evgenios Voulgaris and Nikiforos Theotokis, who furthemore were proponents of a much more tolerant attitude vis-a-vis the religious sect of the Old Believers. Odessa was a thriving center of the Greek Enlightenment in Russia. A famous Gymnassium was founded there and many prominent Greek lay...

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Odessa was one of the major centres of the Greek theatrical life, during the period before the Greek Revolution of Independence (1821). This assumption rests on the activities of a significant theatrical company and on the enactment of several noteworthy plays, which were also important for their ideological background and connection to the movement of the ‘Greek Enlightenment’. During the years after the Greek Revolution, the theatrical activities continued thanks to amateur theatrical...