Travelers

11.05.2011

John Covel

The Englishman John Covel (1638-1722) served from 1669 to 1677 as an employee of his country's ambassador to...

11.05.2011

Francois Braconnier

The French cleric Braconnier was born in 1656. In 1682 he entered the Jesuit order and subsequently taught grammar, rhetoric,...

11.05.2011

John Komnenos

John Komnenos was born in 1658. He was originally from Heraclea in Thrace, but grew up in Constantinople, where he studied at the...

11.05.2011

Vasily Barskij (1701-1747)

Motivated by his boundless love of learning, the Russian traveler Barskij began his long journey from Poland in...

11.05.2011

Philip Hunt and Joseph Dacre Carlyle

The Englishman J. Carlyle was born in 1759. He studied at Cambridge colleges, where, among other things, he taught, and later...

11.05.2011

Vladimir P. Orlov-Davidof

The Russian nobleman Davidof traveled in 1835 to Greece, the foreign-occupied Ionian Islands, Asia Minor and...

11.05.2011

Robert Curzon

The English baron R. Curzon was born in 1810 in London. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford (1829), where he studied...

11.05.2011

John Athelstan Laurie Riley

Riley was born in London in 1858. He studied at various colleges in Oxford, from where he graduated in 1884. A...