Anagnostarás

Anagnostaras (; 1760 – 8 May 1825) was a Greek revolutionary, a leading member of the Filiki Etaireia, and later a general and War Minister of the Greek War of Independence. Anagnostaras is a nom de guerre, he was born as Christos Papageorgiou () and signed as Anagnostis Papageorgiou ().

== Early years == Anagnostaras was born in 1760 at the village of Poliani (now part of the municipality of Kalamata in Messenia, Greece); his family originated from the Leontari area of Arcadia. In Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), he appeared in the Ionian Islands, together with Christoforos Perraivos and Tzanetos Grigorakis, to serve with the rank of major under the commands of the Greek-Russian general Emmanouil Papadopoulos. In 1803 he moved to the island Zakynthos and starting his military service in the Imperial Russian Army until 1813, when he demobilized and moved to Odesa to ask his arrears of salary.