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See also:ALEXANDER See also:YPSILANTI (1792-1828) , eldest son of See also:Constantine Ypsilanti, accompanied his See also:father in 18o5 to St See also:Petersburg, and in 1809 received a See also:commission in the See also:cavalry of the Imperial Guard. He fought with distinction in 1812 and 1813, losing an See also:arm at the See also:battle of See also:Dresden, and in 1814 was promoted See also:colonel and appointed one of the See also:emperor's adjutants. In this capacity he attended Alexander I. at the See also:congress of See also:Vienna, where he was a popular figure in society (see La Garde-Chambonas, Souvenirs). In 1817 he became See also:major-See also:general and See also:commander of the See also:brigade of hussars. In 182o, on the refusal of See also:Count See also:Capo d'See also:Istria to accept the See also:post of See also:president of the See also:Greek Hetairia Philike, Ypsilanti was elected, and in 1821 he placed himself at the See also:head of the insurrection against the See also:Turks in the Danubian principalities. Accompanied by several other Greek See also:officers in the See also:Russian service he crossed the Pruth on the 6th of See also:March, announcing that he had the support of a " See also:great See also:power." Had he advanced on Ibraila he might have prevented the Turks entering the principalities and so forced See also:Russia to accept the fait accompli. Instead, he remained at See also:Jassy, disgracing his cause by condoning the massacres of See also:Turkish merchants and others. At See also:Bucharest, whither he advanced after some See also:weeks' delay, it became See also:plain that he could not rely on the Vlach peasantry to rise on behalf of the Greeks; even the disconcerting expedient of his Vlach ally See also:Theodore Vladimiresco, who called on the peasants to See also:present a See also:petition to the See also:sultan against Phanariot See also:misrule, failed to stir the See also:people from their apathy. Then, wholly unexpectedly, came a See also:letter from Capo d'Istria upbraiding Ypsilanti for misusing the See also:tsar's name, announcing that his name had been struck off the See also:army See also:list, and commanding him to See also:lay down his arms. Ypsilanti's decision to explain away the tsar's letter could only have been justified by the success of a cause which was now hopeless. There followed a See also:series of humiliating defeats, culminating in that of Dragashan on the 19th of See also:June.
Alexander, accompanied by his See also:brother See also:Nicholas and a remnant of his followers, retreated to Rimnik, where he spent some days in negotiating with the See also:Austrian authorities for permission to See also:cross the frontier. Fearing that his followers might surrender him to the Turks, he gave out that See also:Austria had declared See also:war on See also:Turkey, caused a Te Deum to be sung in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Kosia, and, on pretext of arranging See also:measures with the Austrian commander-in-See also:chief, crossed the frontier. But the Austria of See also:Francis I. and Metternich was no See also:asylum for leaders of revolts in neighbouring countries. Ypsilanti was kept in See also:close confinement for seven years, and when released at the instance of the emperor Nicholas I. of Russia, retired to Vienna, where he died in extreme poverty and misery on the 31st of See also:January 1828.
End of Article: ALEXANDER YPSILANTI (1792-1828)
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