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?
Maybe not ENTIRELY helpful, but I got this with Google translate:
I can confirm:
Chaliapin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feodor_Chaliapin
Bunin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bunin
Naydyonov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Naydyonov
Skitalets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Skitalets
Tereshev (there’s like 5 military people) https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Телешев
Chirikov - might be this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chirikov
Yeah, your guy for Chirikov looks way more likely than the one I found.
Teleshov makes more sense given the writers in the room.