Can someone here who reads Russian Cyrillic tell me what the names in this old photo are?
I've been scanning in family photos and I came across this one. My father, rather unhelpfully, wrote-
Russian photo from my maternal grandfather: [NAME] Among the notables: back row, third figure on right is Maxim Gorky[!]; front row, second figure on left (with watch-chain) is Feodor Chaliapin.
Chaliapin was apparently a notable opera singer.
What are the other names so I can know which one is my great-grandfather? If it's okay, once the names are transliterated, I'm not going to say which one I'm related to. I realize it was a long time ago, but you never know.
Thank you, but the problem is I can't read those words. What are they with a Latin alphabet without translation? Google Translate translates the words into English.
I speak Russian at a native level, but that's an archaic pre-revolution orthography that I'm not 100% sure about. But I'm 99% sure that most of those transliterations are correct. Except Gorky. In Ukrainian Г makes a rough H sound, while in Russian it's G, as in "good".
And a bonus fun fact for you, горький (gorky) means "bitter".