Oikonomopoulos, Charalampos (2020). Vallianos Brothers, the benefactors.

Magnates and national benefactors Vallianos brothers financed the construction of the Greek National Library building all by themselves at the end of 19th century. They were succesful Sea of Azov region based merchants.

This study is written entirely in Greek. It combines research and analysis of primary and bibliographic sources and follows the "three dimensions (time, place, manner) method", originally developed by the supervising professor, Matoula Sideri-Tomara, who also taught at the Panteion University course about Greek national benefactors.

The aim of the study was to correlate decisions of the Vallianos brothers with their unique role as wealthy national benefactors within the turbulent and special historical circumstances of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in order to analyse and highlight the complex and idiosyncratic political, social and cultural role of that era's magnates, who were isnpired by both Enlightment and Romanticism.