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Eftychios Vagionakis founded and managed a well-known publishing house and bookshop in Athens (Greece).

Marios Vaïanos (1905?-1975) spent his childhood on the island of Chios (Greece) but graduated from secondary school in Piraeus. He was an intellectual and a journalist and, during his youth, he composed poems which he published in various journals. He was also the publisher of journals, including Nea Techni, the first ever journal to publish a special issue dedicated to Cavafy and his work. After the war he founded the “Intellectual Collaboration Agency”, a sui generis literary salon which attracted authors, scholars and artists. The Agency organised an exhibition of Cavafy’s memorabilia in 1964.

George A. Valassopoulo (1890-1972) was born in Alexandria (Egypt) and was the son of the distinguished doctor Aristeidis Valassopoulo. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and worked as a lawyer. He was a friend of E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy. He translated a significant part of Cavafy’s poems into English.

Charikleia Theodora Cavafy (1896-1983) was C. P. Cavafy’s niece, the daughter of his brother Aristeidis and Maria Vourou. She was born in Alexandria (Egypt), where she married Geronimo Valieri in 1923. Until that year, she used to meet with the poet frequently. During the 1923-1947 period she travelled to Europe with her husband, her daughter and her mother. From 1957 until the end of her life she lived permanently on the island of Lesbos (Greece).

Jacob van Crewel (Jeune) was born in Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 1852. He was, like his father whom he succeeded, a photographer in Antwerp (Belgium), active in the period 1883-1905; he specialized in portraits.

Paul Vanderborght (1899-1971) was a Belgian poet and founder of the literary journal La Lanterne sourde (1921-1931). He lived in Egypt during the 1920s, where he met Cavafy.

Auguste Varenhorst was from Hanover (Germany); he started working in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1855. He was the doctor of Said Pasha and of khedives (regents) Ishmael and Tewfik. He was named pasha in 1885. He served as director of the Hôpital des Diaconesses in Alexandria.

Marietta N. Vatimbella (née Grypari, 1881-1966) was married to Nikolaos Vati(m)bella and had three children: Aristarchos, Maro, and Ioannis. Both Marietta and her husband studied in Athens (Greece) and lived in Alexandria (Egypt).

Sevastie Fotiadi was C. P. Cavafy’s aunt, his mother’s younger sister. She was married to Leon Verhaeghe de Naeyer, a Belgian diplomat, and died in Paris (France), in 1896.

Leon Verhaeghe de Nayer (1839-1906) was a Belgian diplomat. He served as Governor of East Flanders (1879-1884) and as an attaché of Belgium in China (1884-1891), Portugal (1891-1896) and Italy (1903-1906). He married Sevastie Fotiadi in 1875.