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722 KONSrUANTSNOS HATZOFOtPUlJOS 2

In connection with this notę, -we jEirst presnmed that the receiver of the letter was probably the Greek reyolutionary Athanasios Tsakalof, who exactly in the samo period was established in Italy, where he had taken refnge sińce 1819, after the execution of Nicolaos Galatis ^{1 2 3}.

But, studying attentively the text of the letter we have noticed that Athanasios Tsakalof could not be the receiver, because the author wrote on page 13 ^{4 5}: “After leaving Wallachia, Athanasios Tsakalof went to Pisa. I dont’ know what he is doing or going to do, because, you know, sińce he had left Constantinople I didn’t receive any news or letters from him.” Therefore we must exclude, without any doubt, the possibility that Athanasios Tsakalof might have been the receiver of the letter in ąuestion.

As we had no other possibilities to identify the receiver, we have limited ourselves to the minutę analysis of the text.

As it results from the text, the receiver of the letter in ąuestion was also the receiver of a previous letter, written also by Em. Xanthos, the carrier of which was the Greek revolutionary George Tipaldos⁶.

It is known that George Tipaldos and Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos had to accompany Dimitrios Ipsilantis on his way from Bessarabia to Triest and therefrom to Greece®.

But, a letter written in Cernaufci (Bucovina), on the 26th of April 1821 by P. Anagnostopoulos to Em. Xanthos, reveals that George Tipaldos did not leave together with D. Ipsilantis and P. Anagnostopoulos, but these two, after having left Kissinef, arriyed in Cernau^i (Crossing the border between Eussia and Austria) and interrupted their voyage for a short time waiting for G. Tipaldos’ arrival, “but ashehadn’t arrived until no w... we must leave this afternoon..⁷.

This incontestable proof that G. Tipaldos left after D. Ipsilanti and P. Anagnostopoulos’ departure, is confirmed also by Athanasios Xodilo8, who, speaking about D. Ipsilantis’ departure from Bessarabia, mentions that D. Ipsilantis crossed the border between Eussia and Austria accompanied only by P. Anagnostopoulos ⁸.

In conclusion G. Tipaldos, the carrier of the first letter mentioned in the letter in ąuestion addressed to the same person, did not leave Bessarabia together with D. Ipsilantis and P. Anagnostopoulos, but he followed them and met them in the Transylvanian town Hermannstadt (today Sibiu in Eomania) on the 17th of May 1821 ®.

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⁸ Filimon, Ioannis, Aoxtpuov 'Ioropix6v rrepl t?ję 4>iXixłię 'Eraipetaę (Hlstorlcal essay conceming the 'Fłlikl Hetairia’), Nafplion, 1934, pp. 230— 231.

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*    When we are referring to the text of the letter in ąuestion we nse the correspondlng

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page number of the origlnal.

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*    Manuscript, p. 1.

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*    Xanthos, Em., op. elt, p. 48; SpiUadls, Nlkolaos, ’A7ro|i\n)(AovcópaTa Sui v<£ XPT)Ot(xeiio<i>otv etę ttI)v Neotv'EXXrjvix^v'Ioroptow (1821—1843)* (Memolń conceming modern

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Greek Hlstory), Athens, 1972, vol. I, p. 204.

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   Xanthos, Em., op. cit., p. 168.

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   Xodilos, Athanasios, ’ Arropwt)(jlovsu(zara rtepl -nję 'Emipclaę t«v <DiXixćiv (Memoirs conceming the 'Fliiki Hetairia’), Athens, 1964, p. 52.

⁸ Filimon, Ioannis, Aoxt(iiov 'Iaropixóv 7t«p( r^ę ^,EXXł]vix7)ę ’E7tavaortios6ję (Hlstorlcal essay conceming the Greek Revolutlon), Athens, 1860, vol. III, p. 387; Diamandls, Kons-tantinos, AT)(i^Tptoę'T<j(TjX(£vT7)ę(1793—1832), (Dimitrios Ipsilantis) (1793—1832), Athens, 1966, p. 40.