Christoforos Perraivos Christoforos Perraivos ( ) was a Greek officer of the Greek War of Independence , member of the Filiki Eteria and author . In non - Greek sources his name is usually found as " Per ( r ) evo ( s ) . " Biography . Perraivos was born c . 1773 in Pieria . His family name was Chadzivassilis ( Χατζηβασίλης ) , but adopted the nickname “ Perraivos ” alluding to the Perrhaebi , an ancient Greek tribe of Thessaly . It is believed that he was an illegitimate son of a certain monk Hieronymos , official at the bishopry of Larissa . In 1793 , with the help of the said Hieronymos , he left Greece to study at the Greek School in Bucharest and in 1796 to study medicine in Vienna . There he met the Greek humanist and revolutionary Rigas Feraios and entered an underground revolutionary organization . In 1797 Perraivos was arrested with Rigas and others by the Austrian authorities in Trieste but , unlike Rigas Feraios who was handed over to the Turks , Perraivos was released . Afterwards he left for Corfu , then under French administration , and enlisted in the foreign units of the French army . He remained there when the Russians took over the Ionian Islands in 1798 . He fell into disfavour with the Russians but he managed to stay in Corfu and to serve in the army , thanks to the protection of the Greeks Eleutherios Benakis ( Russian agent ) and George Palatinos ( secretary of the Russian Admiral ) . In Corfu he worked also as a teacher in Greek schools from 1804 . During 1805 - 1806 he was attached to the Russian admiral Michael Dolgorukov and later was given the rank of major by the Russian admiral Dmitry Senyavin . As a commander of 4 units of 100 men ( " hekatontarch ies " ) he defended the island of Lefkada ( one of the Ionian islands , then " Santa Maura " ) that was threatened by Ali Pasha . When the French occupied the Ionian Islands for second time in 1807 he retained his rank and became member of the Albanian Regiment , established the same year ( Boppe , p . 11 ) . Memoirs of his service under the Russians and the French are included in his “ History of Souli and Parga ” . This work was written in Corfu , where he stayed till 1817 . Its first volume was published in 1803 in Paris and includes the earliest historical essay on Souli based on first - hand informations gathered from Souliotes refugees fighters in the island . It also includes information on the activities of Russia , France and Britain in the Ionian and Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars and the wars against Ali Pasha and the Ottomans . In 1817 , after the departure of French from Corfu , he migrated to Russia . In Odessa he met the leaders of the Filiki Eteria and became member of this organization . Following the orders of the Eteria he travelled to the semi - autonomous Mani Peninsula to organize the revolution against the Ottoman Empire . In Wallachia he met Alexander Ypsilantis , the political and military head of the Greek revolution , in 1820 and tried to persuade him to postpone the uprising . However , Ypsilantis , resolved to begin the revolution in March 1821 , sent Perraivos to Epirus to coordinate with the Souliotes and other captains whom he knew from Corfu . He was in Epirus on the outbreak of the revolution ( March 1821 ) and fought with the Souliotes in various battles , as in the siege of the Riniassa castle . After the treaty between Souliotes and Ottomans and the evacuation of Souli , he went to Missolonghi and then to other parts of Greece , participating in many military campaigns and political missions . In 1829 participated in the Fourth National Assembly at Argos as a representative of Thessaly . After independence he authored his " War memoirs " . He served in the regural army of the new Greek Kingdom as a colonel , and was promoted to Major General by King Otto of Greece in 1844 . He died on 4 May 1863 in Athens .