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Jean Psichari (Giannis Psycharis, 1854-1929) was born in Odessa (Ukraine) and, as of 1867, lived in Paris (France) where he studied Philology and Linguistics. In 1867 he was appointed professor of Medieval and Modern Greek Letters (from 1903 to 1929 at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes). He was an extreme demoticist and wrote novels, short stories, poems and plays, in Greek, French and Italian. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, contributing to the revision of the trial, and lost his two sons during World War I.

Amalia Callinus (Fotiadi) was C. P. Cavafy’s aunt, one of his mother’s sisters. She was married to Alexandros Psylliaris and had two sons with him. After her husband’s death, she was married again (in 1873), to Ch. Callinus, an interpreter of the Belgian embassy in Istanbul (Turkey) and had a daughter and a son with him.

The Egyptian Public Works Ministry was established in the early 19th century (1818), mainly focusing on hydraulic engineering and irrigation projects. It constructed major irrigation canals and dams. During the period 1882-1952, when the ministry was under British control, the major dams along the river Nile were built.

Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) was a French writer and literary critic. For many years he worked at Gallimard and was the chief editor of the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade (1956). In 1960 he established the “Ouvroir de littérature potentielle” (Oulipo – ‘Laboratory of potential literature’). He was a member of the surrealist movement in the period 1924-ca. 1930.

The R. J. Moss & Co. was established in 1861 by a British businessman, Robert Johnson Moss. Initially, the company’s business was in cotton and coal trading, later extending to antiquities and their transportation, through the purchase of important collections on behalf of the British Museum, in the 1890s.

The trading house of the Ralli Brothers, a Greek family from Chios, was active in business during the 19th and the 20th centuries. Starting in Izmir (Turkey), the house built a strong network of companies with branches and structures in big commercial centres (London, Manchester, Liverpool, Odessa, Marseilles and later in Calcutta, Bombay and New York). In addition to trade (of silk, grains, cotton, etc.), the family business also extended to banking and shipping. The corporate structure of the house changed many times during its lifetime, adapting to current conditions. The company was acquired by another trading group in 1961.

Antonios (Totty) Ralli (1870-1950) was born and died in Alexandria (Egypt). He was married to Persephone Prigkou (1897), with whom he had a daughter and a son.

Mike Th. Ralli (1866-1889) was born in Alexandria (Egypt) and was the son of Theodore Ralli, who had served as president of the Greek Community of Alexandria (1871-1885). Mike Ralli was a close friend of C. P. Cavafy (they were also classmates at the “Hermes” Pragmatic Lyceum). A significant part of their correspondence is preserved in the Cavafy archive. He died of typhoid fever at a young age.