Theodoros Vallianos ( Greek Θεόδωρος Βαλλιάνος ; 1801 , Taganrog , Russian Empire - April 8, 1857 , Athens, Greek Kingdom ) - Russian and Greek officer of the XIX century. Member of the Greek Revolution , "Pioneer and founder of the engineering corps of the Greek army." First Consul of the Kingdom of Greece in Ottoman Macedonia [2] .
| Theodoros Vallianos | |
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| Θεόδωρος Βαλλιάνος | |
 Consul T. Vallianos. Portrait of the artist Dionysius Tsokos [1] . | |
| Date of Birth | 1796 |
| Place of Birth | Taganrog , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | April 8, 1857 |
| Place of death | Athens , Greek Kingdom |
| Affiliation |  Greece |
| Type of army | Irregular troops Engineer troops |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | Greek revolution |
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Youth
Theodoros Vallianos was born in Taganrog in 1796 into a Greek family. The genus Vallianosov came from the village of LivatΛ (Λειβαθώ) of the island of Kefallinia , one branch of which settled in southern Russia at the end of the 18th century and was busy with commerce.
He received his primary education in Taganrog. He entered the Military School in St. Petersburg , after which he joined the engineering battalion under the imperial garrison. He was promoted to the rank of captain. In 1821, with the beginning of the Greek Revolution, he resigned from the Russian army and went to rebellious Greece.
Greek Revolution
Vallianos arrived in Greece in April 1822, with money and a load of weapons and ammunition. This gave him the opportunity to form and maintain his own detachment, from fellow countrymen of Kefalonians . Vallianos took part in the defeat of the troops of Dramali Pasha (1822), in the siege of the fortress of the city of Patras (1823) and also in the Second Defense of the Mesolongion .
In the rank of captain, in the period 1823-1824 and 1825-1826, he commanded the artillery of the only regular army corps.
In the interim, in 1824, he was appointed commander of the engineering corps and artillery in the temporary capital of Greece, the city of Nafplion .
In 1825, according to his project, the Aga Pasha mosque in Nafplion was rebuilt into the Provisional Parliament.
Vallianos built barracks, water tanks and aqueducts, storage buildings, workshops and foundries in Nafplion, and completed the destruction of the city walls. In many cases, he paid for expenses from his own funds.
In 1826 he took part in the organization of a battalion of volunteers from the Ionian Islands .
In 1827, as a military engineer and architect, he was sent to the island of Aegina , to carry out work.
After John Kapodistrias arrived in Greece, Vallianos was appointed Civil Engineer in January 1828 and continued to work until July 1829, when he was appointed commander of the battalion, the newly created corps of “Fortification and Architecture Officers”, and at the same time was acting "Engineer Nafplion."
The historiography indirectly mentions the name of Major Vallianos in events related to the assassination of Kapodistrias in September 1831. One of the murderers of Kapodistrias, Georgios Mavromihalis, broke into the house of Vallianos, waiting here for protection from the French consul [3] . As a result of this episode, Vallianos witnessed the prosecution in court, sentencing G. Mavromihalis to death [3] .
After the assassination of Kapodistrias, Vallianos was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1831 and from April 1832 until the arrival of the Bavarians in Greece (January 1833), he was commander of the engineering corps and the head of the arsenal [4] .
Greek kingdom
In the period 1833-1844, Vallianos belonged to the so-called “Russian party” [5] .
In 1833, Vallianos was appointed regent of the young King of Bavaria, Otton, chairman of the military court. In the same year he was appointed consul general to the capital of Ottoman Macedonia , the city of Thessaloniki , where he defended the rights of the Greek population of Macedonia and Thessaly as a Greek diplomat.
After the restoration of the Greek state in southern Greek lands, the struggle of the Greeks of Macedonia , remaining outside the borders of the new state, did not stop. The secret contacts of Vallianos with the leaders of the Greek partisan movement in Macedonia, such as Tsamis Karatassos and Adamantios Nikolaou , soon became known to the Ottoman authorities and the situation for Vallianos to be consul became unfavorable [6] . Vallianos remained consul until 1840.
In October 1841, he was appointed "Director of the Judicial Department of the War Department."
Vallianos took part in the constitutional revolution of 1843 .
In 1852 he received the title of “full colonel of the General Staff” and, at the same time, was sent to the reserve. It was finally demobilized in 1854.
Translator and Theologian
After his resignation, Vallianos began to translate Russian fiction and theological works into Greek. He also wrote a number of his theological works, the most important of which were: “Dialogue on Orthodoxy of the Eastern Catholic Church” (1851), “History of the Russian Church” (1851). He also wrote the theatrical drama Death of Prince Potemkin (1850) [7] .
Theodoros Vallianos died in Athens on April 8, 1857.
Notes
- ↑ Βαλλιάνος Θεόδωρος Vallianos Theodoros | openarchives.gr
- ↑ Αίθουσα Α΄: Εκθετήριο
- ↑ 1 2 Δημήτρης Φωτιάδης, Η Επανάσταση του 1821, εκδ. Μέλισσα 1971
- ↑ Συνταγματάρχης Μηχανικού - Γενικών Επιτελών Θεόδωρος Βαλλιάνος (1796-1857) (Αριθμός Παλαιού Μητρώου του Γενικού Επιτελείου Στρατού / 1ο ΕΓ: 7), Στρατιωτική Επιθεώρηση, Ιουλ. - Αυγ. 2011
- ↑ Στέφανος Παπαγεωργίου, Από το Γένος στο Έθνος 1821-1862, ISBN 960-02-1769-6
- ↑ Κωνσταντίνος Α. Βακαλόπουλος, Επίτομη Ιστορία της Μακεδονίας, εκδ. Κυριακίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη 1988, σελ. 114
- ↑ Βαλλιάνος, Θεόδωρος