Can someone here who reads Russian Cyrillic tell me what the names in this old photo are?

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 121 points – 4 months ago

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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Maybe not ENTIRELY helpful, but I got this with Google translate:

I can confirm:

Chaliapin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Chaliapin

(there are recordings for him on YouTube!)

Bunin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bunin

The Wiki for Bunin seems to have another photo from the same set:

Identified as members of the writers group "Sreda", 1902.

L. Andreev:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Andreyev

(looks more like the guy above him though)

Pyatnitsky:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrofan_Pyatnitsky

~~The last name Google Translate did not pick up is Чирико which translates as Chirico. The photo doesn't line up for this guy, but the era and group of people would:~~

~~https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico~~

Sergigig found a much more likely candidate based on the photo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chirikov

Скиталецъ or "Wanderer" was his pen name. Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov.

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%86_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Skitalets

Has the same photo as the Bunin wiki.

~~I can't get anything on "Telesheg" or "Teleshev" or the one that translates out as "Found".~~

Edit from Sprink's comment below, "Found", or Найдёнов, is Naydyonov, the pen name of Sergey Alexandrovich Alexeyev:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Naydyonov

Sergigig also found Teleshov:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Teleshov