Lambros Katsonis was a Greek colonel in the Russian imperial army and a hero of the Greek liberation movement against the Turks in 1787.

He was born in 1752 in Livadia.

In 1774 he enlisted as an officer in the Greek battalion of the Russian army and rose to the rank of captain.

In 1787, when war broke out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Katsonis went to Italy to receive ships from expatriates to fight in the Ionian and Aegean. He also received orders from Catherine the Great of Russia to organize the country’s fleet in the Mediterranean.

When a truce was signed between the two countries, he did not obey the orders of his superiors. So he went to Mani to organize the Greeks for a revolution against the Turks. This is because he believed that Russia was unaware of the occupation of Greece. So Russia stripped him of his office.

In 1792 he started organizing a revolution again with Androutsos, another Greek hero. But then the French feared that their merchant fleet would face problems in the Mediterranean, so they attacked them to prevent them.

He then went to St. Petersburg to live with his family. He had three sons. The first was killed in hostilities with Turks. The other two became Russian army officers.

He was assassinated in 1805 in the Crimea.

[Source: el.wikipedia.org]