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RoMOLO Gessi was boru at Constautinople iu 1831. His father, Marco Gessi, was a lawyer of Eavenna, a political exile, and his mother, Elisabetta Golobetti, was an Italian born in Armenia.

In 1842 Marco Gessi died, leavinor a moderate fortune realized hj the practice of the law, and Romolo, through the forethought of a maternal uncle, was sent to German}^ to finish his education. In 1848 Mr. Lloyd, the English consul at Bucharest, an old friend of Marco Gessi, perceiving in Romolo an intelligent mind united to the knowledge of several languages, among which were Turkish, Russian, and Greek, took him into his office at Bucharest, where he remained till the declaration of war against Russia by the Allied Powers.

Receiving an appointment on the English Staff, Gessi set out for the Crimea in the office of inter-

preter to General Strnowhys. During the war he rendered most important services, not only as inter-

preter, but by taking the direction of various secret expeditions. After the death of General Strnowhys, who fell in battle at his side, Gessi met with Colonel Gordon, with whom he formed a friendship.

The war ended, Gessi went to London, from whence he re-embarked for the East, visiting Syria and all the ports of the Black Sea, till, on his Danubian journey, he married in 1860 Maria Purkart, and settled finally at Tulcia in Roumania.