1881, Gabriel Destounis, TOU XANTHINOU, St. Petersburg Printing, Byzantine Folk Song of Trabzon, Trebizond

Description

ΤΟΥ ΞΑΝΘΙNΟΥ – Tou Xanthinou

Άσμα δημοτικόν Τραπεζούντος της Βυζαντινής εποχής

εκδοθέν ρωσσιστί μεταφρασθέν και δειρμηνευθέν

παρά Γαβριήλ Δεστούνη

 

By XANTHINOS

Folk song of Byzantine era Trabzon (historically known as Trebizond)

Published in Russian

translated and annotated by Gabriel Destounis

 

Published in St. Petersburg in 1881 by The Commissioner Imperial Academy Of Sciences

Original Paper Wraps

First Edition

Language Russian

8vo, Pages 28

 

 

Gabriel Destounis (1818-1895), son of Spyridon Destounis, was a professor of the Institute of Oriental Languages in St. Petersburg and of ancient Greek and Byzantine literature at the local university. Destounis also authored several historical works, such as On Klephts and Armatols of 1821 and Greek Heroic Hymns of Medieval Times.