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keywords: Italian Origin – Kerch – 1917 revolution - kolkhoz Sacco and Vanzetti – Lenin – Stalin – Italy – Bisceglie.  

synthesis: Father migrates to Russia in  1885 – mother's last name is Giannuzzi – parents have peasant origins - Revolution at 1917 – kolkhoz Sacco and Vanzetti at Kerch – Stalinist expulsions – accusations and betrayals among Italian communists– arrest of his brother – Lenin's death – coming of Stalin.- School recollections from Crimea – return to Italy in the thirties.   

subject biography: Born In  Kerch on  07/01/1916 from Italian parents. Father, in  1885, leaves Bisceglie (Ba), in Italy, and migrates to Russia, where he marries Ms. Giannuzzi, originally from Monopoli. At Kerch they work on farming.  In  1930 he is the only one that returns to Italy with the parents. In 1942 he enters  the Italian Army and gets sent to the Soviet front with the "Julia Alpine Division" as a translator.  His grandchildren currently live in Moscow, in Kerch and in Caucasia. Dies at a Bisceglie (Ba) on March 27th, 2003.

THE ITALIANS OF Crimea
Information, video and tales about the Italian community emigrated to Crimea throughout the centuries.   (In Italian)