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