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RF representatives commemorate Cossacks buried on Greece's Lemnos
THE ISLAND LEMNOS (Greece), September 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian
politicians, businesspeople, clergymen, culture personalities, descendants of Russian emigrants, as well as officials and clergymen from the Greek island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea last Sunday commemorated the Cossacks, who were buried on the island in 1920-21.
About 30,000 Russian officers, soldiers, Cossacks from the White Guard armies under the command of Vrangel and Denikin, as well as civil refugees were brought to the Lemnos Island onboard the Entente ships in 1920-21 after the Red Army captured the Crimea. About 500 people died of diseases, a typhus epidemics and famine and were buried on the deserted coast of the island near Kaloeraki, where their camp was deployed. In 2004 the memorial Cross was placed at the cemetery in commemoration of the Cossacks and members of their families, who have found their last haven there, and a memorial wall was unveiled at the cemetery in 2009. The Russian delegation headed by Governor of the Kostroma Region Igor Slyunyayev laid down the flowers to the monument last Sunday.
During the remembrance service at the cemetery the governor said that the God-blessing Greek soil preserves many Orthodox shrines, however, this island plays a special role. "For many Russian people this island turned into the last harbor on the way from Russia," Slyunyayev pointed out.
For his part, Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexei noted that
already eight years passed since the cemetery of our compatriots was found and restored on the Greek soil. "But every time we arrive here, the heart cannot calm down at all. With each new year we are feeling stronger and stronger what hardships our compatriots had to live through. They loved their homeland, loved their people and were always ready to perform their duty of warrior," he noted. The archbishop noted that Lemnos is keeping a piece of the Russian Golgotha. "Our compatriots continue to teach us how to love our homeland and our people and how to perform our Christian duty," His Grace Alexei remarked.
The Russian delegation will visit the Russian part of the
British-French military cemetery of the First World War times near the
city of Mudros.
politicians, businesspeople, clergymen, culture personalities, descendants of Russian emigrants, as well as officials and clergymen from the Greek island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea last Sunday commemorated the Cossacks, who were buried on the island in 1920-21.
About 30,000 Russian officers, soldiers, Cossacks from the White Guard armies under the command of Vrangel and Denikin, as well as civil refugees were brought to the Lemnos Island onboard the Entente ships in 1920-21 after the Red Army captured the Crimea. About 500 people died of diseases, a typhus epidemics and famine and were buried on the deserted coast of the island near Kaloeraki, where their camp was deployed. In 2004 the memorial Cross was placed at the cemetery in commemoration of the Cossacks and members of their families, who have found their last haven there, and a memorial wall was unveiled at the cemetery in 2009. The Russian delegation headed by Governor of the Kostroma Region Igor Slyunyayev laid down the flowers to the monument last Sunday.
During the remembrance service at the cemetery the governor said that the God-blessing Greek soil preserves many Orthodox shrines, however, this island plays a special role. "For many Russian people this island turned into the last harbor on the way from Russia," Slyunyayev pointed out.
For his part, Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexei noted that
already eight years passed since the cemetery of our compatriots was found and restored on the Greek soil. "But every time we arrive here, the heart cannot calm down at all. With each new year we are feeling stronger and stronger what hardships our compatriots had to live through. They loved their homeland, loved their people and were always ready to perform their duty of warrior," he noted. The archbishop noted that Lemnos is keeping a piece of the Russian Golgotha. "Our compatriots continue to teach us how to love our homeland and our people and how to perform our Christian duty," His Grace Alexei remarked.
The Russian delegation will visit the Russian part of the
British-French military cemetery of the First World War times near the
city of Mudros.
