Born in Istanbul into the Phanariote Soutzos family, he left the Danubian Principalities for Imperial Austrian-ruled Transylvania during the Wallachian uprising of 1821. He later returned to Moldavia,
Constantin Sion, also known as Costandin or Cothi Sion, was a Moldavian political conspirator, genealogist, and polemicist. He was born into the lower ranks of the boyar aristocracy, and, though his b
Gheorghe Ghibănescu's edition of Arhondologia
Michael Soutzos' itinerant court. 1827 lithograph by Louis Dupré
Dragoș of Moldavia in a 19th-century print by the Wallachian Constantin Lecca