At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of Russian-Turkish wars,many representatives of the Balkan peoples were engaged as volunteers in the Russian army. In the same period,many Balkan people active in Moldova as members of various guilds and enrolled in military serviceacquired land through marriage and remained to live in the Carpathian-Dniester space. In the following, we highlight the presence of Epirotes (Greeks, Albanians and Vlachs), based on the case of Ipiroti house, both in Russian and Moldovan military units, as noblemen or Bessarabian landowners.