Dimitrios Ipsilantis

(Constantinople, 1791 – Nafplion, 1832): serving officer in the Russian army. Second son of the Phanariot ruler of Moldovlachia, Konstantinos Ipsilantis, he served in the royal guard of the tzar of Russia. After the start of the Revolution in the Danube principalities, he came to Greece as his brother Alexander’s proxy. He arrived on Hydra in June 1821 with the aim of coordinating the political and military powers but clashed with the prokritous (regional powers) and was eventually barred from holding any military or political office.