Simonides, Russia and Russian

Steven Avery

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Russico had a strong Russian influence
Catherine's had some as well

Genius

p. 111
The years that Simonides spent in England are worth reconsidering, in my
opinion, because they mark a turning point in his career as a forger and a
“poisoner” of scholarship, as well as in the public reception of his person. After
travelling in the East, in Russia and in central Europe, within roughly a decade he

p. 119
The discovery of Heliotypy being a necessary study, I also endeavoured to learn the art.
I began first at Odessa, in 1843, at the instance of my patron, the illustrious Alexander
Scarlatus Sturtza, but soon set it aside, going into the interior of Russia. But about

p. 181
In 1847, a swindler, named Simonides, notorious throughout Turkey, Russia, and Greece as
an impostor, counterfeiter, and cheat, published in the columns of the Age a description of
certain pretended „orgies“ which he had witnessed at Dr. King’s house as religious cer-
emonies performed by him.
 

Steven Avery

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p. 123
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53 Tregelles 1869.
Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux (1869), “Codex Mayerianus and Simonides”, in: Notes and Queries, 4th S., Ill, April 24, 389.

Notes and Queries
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Scarlet Stones
Σκάρλατοί Στονρτζαι.
 
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Steven Avery

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Russian dossier
https://forums.carm.org/threads/cod...-of-sciences-archives-in-st-petersburg.15389/

Costantino Simonidis, o la pietas del falsario, «Eikasmós» XXIV, 2013, 491-503
Federico Condello
https://www.academia.edu/6178203/Co...asmós_XXIV_2013_491_503?email_work_card=title

"From the Cephalonia of the anti-British riots to the hyper-orthodox Russia of Nicholas I, and his advisor Aleksandr Sturdza, the step is a short one. And it is the step that Simonidis took between 1850 and 1851, as exhaustively testified by the collection of documents that constitutes, for Ca.'s care, the second part of the volume. What is presented here is an updated, enlarged and duly post-illustrated version of the dossier exhumed by Igor Medvedev three to twelve years ago, in St. Petersburg, at the Kunik fund of the Academy of Sciences archives14.

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Richard Janko

.As you are obviously aware, there must be a huge amount of material on all this in Russia, but I had a hard time even trying to track down Simonides' alleged Russian publications, some of which clearly do exist. He is a fascinating figure.

With all best wishes,
Richard Janko
 
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