“Ypsilanti fortress”(1750)-Str. Ilioara no. 15-Bucharest

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..by some documents at the city hall this was the “Ypsilanti’s fortress“. However, among those who have owned the building include Dudescu Nicolae Constantin and his son who subsequently sold it Hagi banker John Mosco. The Mosco family will sell the complex to a Greek Vienna Simon Sina. The last owner was Ivanciu Gruiev lessee…

Court Arsa and Alexander Ypsilanti (1774-1882)

 

The (Uranus?) hill was cultivated all of grape-vines and orchards even since the time of Alexander Ypsilanti (1774-1882), who in 1775 erected near the St Spiridon Old Church, the royal residence called New Court [21] , which became Court Arsa (burnt court) after it was destroyed by fire in 1812.

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The seal of Alexandru Ipsilanti from 1779

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The seal of Alexandru Ipsilanti from 1779, under which it is written:

“Io Alexandru Ioan Ipsilant  voevod  bojiiu  milostiiu gospodar Zemle Vlaskoe”.

(..at Romanian Monastery Bistrita: http://www.wonderful-romania.com/index.php/component/k2/item/165-the-bistrita-monastery-a-place-of-spiritual-healing-a-font-for-romanian-culture-and-a-museum-of-old-books)

Saint Kassandra from Trabezon( 1644-1677; Wife of Ioannis Ypsilantis)

ΑΓΙΑ ΝΕΟΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΣΣΑΝΔΡΑ Η ΤΡΑΠΕΖΟΥΝΤΙΑ,

ΣΥΖΥΓΟΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΥΨΗΛΑΝΤΗ (+1677) – 1 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ

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…ζούσε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη όπου και μαρτύρησε 1 Αυγούστου 1677.