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The eastern side of St Mark's Square was the house of Pavlos Komoutos. In this place, before the war, was the residence of Pavlopoulos, on the ground floor of which the owner's bakery operated.

Son of Demetrios Komoutos "by his free wife Anastasia Elias Niklos", and half-brother of Antonios Count Komoutos, Prince of the Ionian State and President of the Senate", Pavlos Komoutos was born in 1762 and died on 22 January 1854.

He studied Latin, Italian and French at the school of the monastery of Our Lady of Charity. And he continued his studies at the Jesuit seminary, as evidenced by the "treatise for the Jesuits" which he wrote.

The Komoutou family urged Paul to join the Jacobins during the French Occupation, so he "danced with the Carmagnolians around the tree of Liberty".

As a result, during the riots that took place in 1898, during the first days of the occupation of the island by the Russian Turks, he was forced to leave the country and hide in the houses of family friends in the villages. A short time later, because the "nobles" were urging the Russians to violence against the pro-democrats, he fled to Trieste.

He returned from Italy when order was restored, and in 1814 he was appointed a member of the Ecclesiastical Committee. During the time of the English Protection he served many times as a Councillor, a market gardener, a sanitary inspector, a supervisor of education and a counter-mayor.