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Basil Grigorovich Barsky, born BASIL MOSKOVO-ROSSOS KIEVOPOLITES at Kiev, Russia in the year 1701.
Expelled form the Jesuit Academy at Lwow, Poland in 1723 for having concealed his ‘orthodox upbringing’, he began a quarter-century of wanderings which would last right up to his death a the end of 1747.
Italy, Greece and the Aegean islands, Syria, the Holy Land, Cyprus and Egypt. Twenty-five years of pilgrimage, living on charity, often sick and at times in great danger.
Barsky was a scholar. He left us his carefully written, wonderfully lively sketches and diaries. They give us a unique view of what life was like in this little known period of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
