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?

  • moreeni
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    4 months ago

    Note, im a native english speaker studing to speak Ukrainian

    That’s what I immediatelly thought after seeing you transliterate Горький like that. In Russian, they pronounce Г the same way Ґ is pronounced in Ukrainian, so the proper transcription into Latin of Russian Г would indeed be G 😅