text: Αρχική/Greek Business File/Ioannis Varvakis: The man who sold caviar to the world- A pirate that became national benefactor
  Ηe is an internationally famous figure who started as a pirate, then found himself protected by Catherine the Great in Russia and very
  quickly became rich in the Caspian Sea. He is the man who made caviar fashionable. He was a multifaceted personality of pre-revolutionary Hellenism, who gave his soul and money for Greece and the Greek revolution when it broke out. In his long journey he went from selfishness to vast generosity.
  Ηis story could well be the subject matter of an action-packed novel. He was the incarnation of what one would call “a national benefactor”, as the term has been understood through the ages.
  He began as a shipowner and pirate and ended up as a nobleman in Czarist Russia. Previously, he had distinguished himself during the Orlov events (“Orlofika” in Greek) but also for his financial support towards the Greek struggle for independence in 1821. Though penniless and wanted by the Ottomans, he would eventually succeed on a grand scale in Czarist Russia by creating a vast empire, the result of his intelligence, persistence and, above all, his most famous discovery: caviar.