The Phanare of Constantinople generated a series of famous Greek princes of the Romanian Principalities, among which the two voivodes, representatives of the Ypsilanti family, father and son: Alexander (d. 1807) and Constantine (d. 1816) – both leaving deep traces in the history of the Romanians. At the same time, three generations of this Phanariot family were involved or even influenced, to a certain extent, the international political relations in South-Eastern Europe from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. The year 1821 was marked by military actions of the sons of the fleeing prince Constantin Ypsilanti, who started the rebellion against the Ottoman Empire on the territory of the Romanian Principalities. The role and place of the Ypsilanti family in the Eastern policy of Russia can be discerned especially in their politico-diplomatic activity during the three decades preceding the Greek Revolution of 1821. In his political views, C. Ypsilanti continued to remain a follower of the Russian crown with obvious manifestations of Greek patriotism, transmitted to his children, who were educated in the spirit of love and longing for a free homeland. Addressing him, in January 1816, with a letter to Alexander I, he had mentioned: “serving your empire - I serve my country.” His merit, perhaps the greatest, for the cause of the rebirth of modern Greece was the chosen training and education, highly cultural and patriotic given to his sons - heroes of the struggle for the liberation of the subjugated Fatherland.