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13 AN UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENT AB OUT THE GREEK REYOLUTTON 733

In connection with the secret revolutionary organization of Kissinef, we are informed from the letter that this ‘Ephoria’ was mainly led by Marinos Stratis, held in high esteem by Em. Xanthos. It seems that Athanasios Xodilos had the same opinion about Marinos Stratis, because at a certain point he comes to identify Marinos Stratis with the secret revolutionary organization of Elissinef, as he considers him to be “the only man who sacrified himself morę than anybody else”⁴⁷, which means that Em. Xanthos’ opinion is to taiły objective.

On the contrary, Em. Xanthos’ opinion about the other two leaders is very unfavourable. He accuses Bourdas to be “a creation of theMolda-vians” and “a hypoerite”, while he says of teacher Ioannis Makris ta be ‘fan intellectual”, who cannot make a difference between the ancient Greeks and the contemporary ones.

As for the leader of the Romanian Revolution, Tudor Vladimirescu_r Em. Xanthos has the same opinion as about all the other leaders of the Greek revolution : he was a traitor. Mention should be madę here that the letter in ąuestion was written after the end of the Revolution in the Romanian Principalities, which means that Em. Xanthos was influenced by the failure of the Revolution and therefore tried to offer an explana-tion to the failure of the Greek revolution ⁴⁸.

But the accusations addressed mainly to Ioannis Makris, confirm that there existed many ideological differences among the Greek revo-lutionaries. While Ioannis Makris appears as a supporter of the “intellectual trend”, which was connected with the dream of the renaissance of ancient Greece, Em. Xanthos, a true revolutionary, who dedicated his life to the fight for national independence of Greece⁴⁹, appears as the representative of the revolted nation, who, on the one hand admired. profoundly ancient Greece, but on the other hand, was aware of the Greek realities and knew the finał objectives of the Revolution.

In connection with the information regarding the secret revolu-tionary organization of Ismail, although these are already known facts ⁶⁰r they are of a great importance, because we are informed that, the fuli power given by Alexandros Ipsilantis to its leaders regarding all the secret revolutionary organizations from Bessarabia and South Russia⁵¹ had been strengthened by D. Ipsilantis, a short time before his departure from Bessarabia.

Being extremely strict in his caracterizations of D. Kalamatianos, the leader of the secret revolutionary organization of Ismail, Em. Xanthos used five times (pp. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9) the Serbo-Croatian word ‘promme-nistas’ (one who changes peimanently his opinion), to point out his strange behayiour during the Revolution.

⁴⁷ Xodilos, Ath., op. ctt., p. 40 and notę a.

⁴⁴ For Tudor Vladlmlrescu’s revolutlonary movement see: 0(etea, Andrel, Tudor \ladimtreseu fi reoolufia dtn 1821 (Tudor Vladlmirescu and the Bevolutlon of 1821;) Bucha-reat, 1971; Berindel, Dan, L’annie rivoluilonnatre 1821 dam Its Pays roumains, Bucarest, 1973.

⁴⁴ Vacalopoulos, Apostolos, 'Icrropla toO Nćou ^<EXX7ivio(jlo\3, (The HIstory of Modem Greece), Thessaloniki, 1973, vol. IV, pp. 740—741; Despotopoulos, Alexandros, *H 4w5<paoLę irepl T^ę ’EXXtjvix^i; ^,E7HxvaaT4awoę, (The Declslon about the Greek Revolutlon), Athens, 1965, pp. 7—8.

⁴⁰    Sakellarios, G. S., *H C>iXix^ *ETatp(a, (Flllki Hetalria), Odessa, 1909, p. 187.

⁴¹    Ibidem, pp. 187 and 211.