title: Greeks-chians in the South of Ukraine (end of XVIII century – 1917) between traditions of national self-preservation and practices of social cultural adaptation
abstract: The rapid economic development of Ukrainian south at the end of XVIII – at the beginning of XIX century, in particular, ports in the Black Sea and Azov Sea – Odesa, Mykolaiv, Tahanroh, Berdiansk, Mariupol, Kerch and others – provided with the inflow of foreign commercial capital. Italian, French and Greek merchants established the branches of their firms there, trying to control the international trade of Russian goods, including South Ukrainian and Bessarabian grain. At the same time, Greek tra