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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Within the framework of Greek diaspora at the Danubian cities in Romania (Brăila, Galaţi), an especially vivid publishing activity was developed during the second half of the 19th century, especially from the 1870s until 1900. Dozens of books were published, mainly communal and school regulations, speeches and literary texts. Since the beginning of the 20th century, however, the centre of Greek printing was transferred to Constanţa, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea, and to Bucharest....

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The benefaction of Greek entrepreneurs of South Russia took various forms (donations, endowments) and it was part of their entrepreneurial culture. Merchants’ and bankers’ birth place, the period of their settlement in Russia, the conditions in the places of reception and the class diversities among Greek entrepreneurs constituted the determinants of this phenomenon.

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The Filiki Etaireia was a vehicle around which the operational forces of the Greek Genus rallied and the main initiating lever of the liberation process. As an organization it can be placed within the more general historical movement of secret societies which blossomed at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, with all the particular characteristics which defined its structure, aims and importance.