part in the Battle of Sculeni on 29 June 1821, when Ottoman forces chased him (along with Yiannis Pharmakis and a small force of 400 Greeks) to the Secu Monastery in the Neamț County, where the Greeks made their last stand. Olympios died during the Ottoman attack to the monastery, when he blew up the gunpowder storage to not surrender himself. His widow and children fled to Khotyn, then part of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, where other people of the Serbian- and Greek War, had taken refuge. After the liberation of Greece, Stana and her children moved to Athens. See also Hadži-Prodan Gligorijević, fellow Serbian revolutionary that participated in the same wars Vasos Mavrovouniotis, fellow Montenegrin Serb revolutionary that participated in the Greek War References Paroulakis, Peter H. The Greeks: Their Struggle For Independence. Hellenic International Press, 1984. . Stratiki, Poti. To Athanato 1821. Stratikis Bros, 1990. . External links Biography of Giorgakis Olympios 1772 births 1821 deaths 1820s in Romania Members of the Filiki Eteria Greek military leaders of the Greek War of Independence Members of Sacred Band (1821) People of the First Serbian Uprising Russian military personnel History of Wallachia (1821–1859) Aromanian military personnel Greek people of Aromanian descent Greek military personnel killed in action People from Larissa (regional unit)