Odesa Women's Charitable Society as a space for prosopographic portraits composition of representatives of the Odesa Greek community

Abstract

The article presents the Odesa Women's Charitable Society as a public organization that consisted of women connected by family relations and a circle of communication. The Odesa Women's Charitable Society, which existed from the 1830s to the beginning of the 20th century, united women of different ethnic origins and gave them the opportunity to realize their social aspirations. The focus of attention was on representatives of the Greek community of Odesa, who belonged to aristocratic and merchant families. Taking into account the results of the bibliographic search, which showed insufficient coverage of the activities of Greek women in the charitable sphere, the purpose of the article was to reveal their presence in the society and to trace the family kinship and close family contacts between them. Such information was presented for the Sturdza-Edling-Gagarin, Marazli, Papudov, Inglezi, Mavrocordato, Rodokanaki, Sevastopulo, and others families. That is, the society is shown as a space for making prosopographic portraits of certain persons of the Greek community of the city. Family kinship, probably, could influence the work of the society in a certain way, contributing to productive communication for the sake of joint philanthropic work.