Can someone here who reads Russian Cyrillic tell me what the names in this old photo are? ( lemmy.world )
I've been scanning in family photos and I came across this one. My father, rather unhelpfully, wrote-
Russian photo from my maternal grandfather: [NAME] Among the notables: back row, third figure on right is Maxim Gorky[!]; front row, second figure on left (with watch-chain) is Feodor Chaliapin.
Chaliapin was apparently a notable opera singer.
What are the other names so I can know which one is my great-grandfather? If it's okay, once the names are transliterated, I'm not going to say which one I'm related to. I realize it was a long time ago, but you never know.
But how cool is it that he knew Maxim Gorky?
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