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Helena Stefanovich Schilizzi (Greek: Έλενα Σκυλίτση-Στεφάνοβικ, Elena Skylitsi-Stefanovik; 18 September 1873 — 7 September 1959), was a wealthy Greek-British philanthropist, and second wife of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos.
This chapter describes Helena Schilizzi, a London-based member of the widespread and prosperous Schilizzi family, who met Venizelos during the peace negotiations of late 1912-1913 and became devoted to him. It is based in part on her memoir A l'Ombre de Veniselos.
Helena Schilizzi came from a wealthy eastern Mediterranean family but was born and spent much of her life in London where she married Venizelos in 1921. She bought the land for their new house in Athens, on the corner of Vasilissis Sophias Avenue and Loukiana Street, from the National Bank of Greece in 1928 and commissioned Anastasios Metaxas ...
The Foundation was formed under the trusts of the Will of the late Madame Helena Veniselos (nee Schilizzi) as a memorial to herself and her late husband, Eleutherios Veniselos, the former Premier of Greece.
Helena Schilizzi (1873-1959), who belonged to a prominent Anglo-Greek family, married the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos in London in 1921. The history of the Greek community in London during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, therefore, presents a picture of steady progress from an obscure minority to a position of considerable ...
Helena Schilizzi, the wife of Elefthérios Venizélos, one of the most significant dignitaries in modern Greek history, played a major role in the development of Modern Greek & Byzantine Studies at King's College London.
1 de jun. de 2021 · This book is about one of the greatest leaders of the Greek nation in the modern period. It is about the challenges Greece has faced in the twentieth century (and Crete in the late nineteenth), the qualities of political leadership, and the nature of Greek nationalism.
