Bouboulina's Bust

Below the Schools, passing by Kanari's park, we see Bouboulina' s bust (1771-1825), whose best days of combat activity are connected with Nauplion.

Laskarina Bouboulina, rich widow of captain D. Giannouza, came to a second marriage to a rich ship-owner from Spetse named Demetrius Bouboulis. In 1811 her second husband died fighting the Algerian pirates. Bouboulina then devoted herself with self-demial to the war for the libera­tion of the country. When she later went 

to Constantinop1e, to arrange certain mat­ters concerning her big fortune, which the High Gate was trying to confiscate, she met different members of the Friend1y So­ciety and was introduced into its aims. Returning to Spetse she had «Agamemnon» bui1t, the famous ship that a10ng with three smaller ones participated ίn the Great Re­v01ution.

When the Rev01ution started Boubou­lina was 50 a beautifu1, adventurous and imposing fema1e 1eader. She gave her fortu­ne to the great purpose. In Apri1 1821, she sai1ed into Saronikos with Agamemnon and three smaller ships governed by her sons and he1ped with the Naup1ion blockade, as the folksong of the period says

«From the land-side Ι am afflicted by the Prince,

 (D. Ypsilantis) from the sea-side by Boyboulina».

Her assistance continued all during the siege of the city unti1 the fall of Pa1amidi (November 30, 1822). She 1ived in free Nauplion unti1 1825 when she moved to Spetse where she died inglorious’y at a fami1y raw.

Bouboulina left a strong memory in common people’s soul as a legendary and unbending female leader of the Revolution.