3-077-904 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Nicolas Christodoulaki, a chief of the Cretan Insurgents, 1890. 'Nicolas Christodoulaki, the most famous of the Cretan insurgent chiefs, has been for some time a refugee at Athens, where his striking figure and martial bearing, as well as the renown of his exploits, made him an object of much attention and interest. He is forty-nine years of age, and has played a conspicuous part in several insurrections which have taken place in Crete; especially in those of 1866, 1867, and 1868, as well as in that of last year. He formerly served in the Turkish gendarmerie; but when disturbances broke out in Crete last summer, he deserted, and fled to the mountains, as he found that he was suspected by his Mussulman comrades, and that his life was in danger. He was found guilty of treason, by court-martial, in his absence; while his brother, Rousso Christodoulaki, who was not so fortunate in making his escape, was also found guilty of the same charge, and is now immured in the subterranean prison at Rhodes. The Portrait of this Cretan warrior was sketched at Athens by Mr. J. D. Bourchier'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.