Pavlos Draneht Pacha | |
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Παύλος Δρανέτ Πασάς | |
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| Born | March 9, 1815 |
| Died | February 5, 1894 (aged 78) |
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Pavlos Draneht Pacha (Greek: Παύλος Δρανέτ Πασάς) born Pavlos Pavlides (Greek: Παύλος Παυλίδης), also known as Paolino or Paulino Draneht (9 March 1815 or 1817, Nicosia - 4 or 5 February 1894, Alexandria) was a Cypriot trader who settled in Egypt in 1825 or 1826, he was a close associate of Muhammad Ali Pasha and the first director of the Khedival Opera House.[1][2]
Early life in Cyprus
editPavlides was born in Nicosia Cyprus in 1815 or 1817 to Greek Cypriot parents. They emigrated to Egypt between 1825-1826 or in 1827 to seek a better life than in the constrains of Ottoman Cyprus.[3][2]
Life in Egypt
editMohammed Ali had a personal interest in him and sent him to Paris to study dentistry, physics, mathematics, pharmacy and chemistry.[2] He became a student and a friend of professor Louis Jacques Thenard and afterwards took on his last name in reverse as Draneht. After returning to Egypt he became a royal doctor and followed Regent Sa’id Pasha in his Sudan Expedition. He became a landowner of vast sums of land, especially in Kafr Dawwar as well as Abu Homos.
In Egypt, Pavlos became the personal doctor of Muhammad Ali.[3]
Εφάρμοσε στα κτήματα του το στραγγιστικό σύστημα “Μασράφ” το οποίο μεταχειρίζεται ακόμη η χώρα και ευεργέτησε με διάφορους τρόπους πολλούς Έλληνες και Κυπρίους της εποχής του.
In 1861 he served as the General Director of Railways and Transportation.
He participated in the negotiations regarding the opening of the Suez Canal.
He directed theaters between 1869 and 1878.[4] He became superinentent of the Khedival Opera House in Cairo and commissioned Aida by Giuseppe Verdi which opened in the Cairo Opera in 1871.[5]
He became bay and pasha
Epistoles written by Paul Draneht have been published by Major Abdoun in the Quaderno no. 4 of the Institute of Verdi Studies, while some archival material belongs to his grandson in Vevey.[6]
Personal life and genealogy
editIn 28 June 1873 or in 1875, when Pavlos was 55, he married Adelaide Cassati, also spelled Adele Casati,[2] a 19 year old Italian opera singer, in Oggebbio. They had one daughter in 1877, Despoina (1877-1948), who later married the Greek businesman Emannouel Zervoudakis (1866-1950) (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Ζερβουδάκης) and inherited the massive real estate of her father. Emannouel Zervoudakis had a son Peter Emannouel Zervoudakis (Greek: Πέτρος Εμμανουήλ Ζερβουδάκης) born October 18, 1921 in Paris.[2] They also had a daughter Aikaterini 'Kathleen' Venizelou (nee Zervudachi) (15 April 1898, Alexandria - 1984, Athens), who married Sophocles Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece, son of Greek statesman, Eleftherios Venizelos.
Peter is an art dealer and has an antiques shop, the Galerie du Lac, in Vevey, Switzerland.[7] Peter is the great-ucnle of Tino Zervudachi, an interior designer and partner in Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi.[7][8]
Paul owned Villa Villa Drahnet-Zervudachi in Lake Maggiore, which had 20 rooms and French furniture.[9]
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4282947
In 1877 he was given the title of Pasha.
On 31 December 1889 Ismail Pasha and his three wives sold Gezirah Palace together with its annexes and park to Draneht Pasha and Commander Oblieght.[10]
A street is named after him Paulino in Moharam Bek.
https://www.christopherlong.co.uk/gen/relationsgen/fg09/fg09_469.html
https://www.illagomaggiore.com/en_US/26454,Poi.html
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;79;en
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;78;en
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;75;en
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ mkskoulios (2016-02-26). "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΔΡΑΝΕΤ ΠΑΣΑΣ, ο Αιγυπτιώτης Έμπιστος των Ηγεμόνων της Αιγύπτου". Η νέα "Φωνή της Κάσου" (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-12-17.
- ^ a b c d e Busch, Hans (1978). Verdi's Aida. The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-0798-3.
- ^ a b Polignosi. "Παυλίδης Δρανέτ πασάς". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ Mestyan, Adam (2017-05-09). Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. Princeton University Press. doi:10.23943/princeton/9780691172644.003.0004. ISBN 978-0-691-17264-4.
- ^ Gitre, Carmen (2019). "Aida in Egypt". Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930. University of Texas Press. pp. 16–41.
- ^ Budden, Julian (1979). "Review of Verdi's Aida: The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents". Music & Letters. 60 (1): 83–86. ISSN 0027-4224.
- ^ a b Moore, Dana Thomas,Derry (2012-12-01). "See How One Designer Turned His Paris Duplex Into an Elegant Display of Artwork and Antiques". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ admin (2022-10-23). "Tino Zervudachi". Alain Elkann Interviews. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ^ Bootz, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Photographs by Antoine (2012-05-25). "Inside an Art Filled Southampton Home". Cottages & Gardens. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Baehler". www.egy.com. Retrieved 2024-01-07.