Avgoustinos Ioannis Maria Kapodistrias

Greek: Αυγουστίνος Ιωάννης Μαρία Καποδίστριας Governor of Greece, succeeding his assassinated brother, Ioannis. He was born in Corfu in 1778, and was the third son of the jurist and politician Antonios Maria Kapodistrias and the Cypriot Diamantina Gonemi. He studied agronomy and literature. He was a diplomatic officer and official of the Ionian State, while in 1818 he was a diplomatic courier of the tsar. Member of the Filiki Etairia since its foundation and then its official in Corfu. One year after the assumption of Greek rule by his brother, he assumed the Administration of Western Greece (August 23, 1829) and made a decisive contribution to the expulsion of the Turkish guards from Nafpaktos, Antirrio and Messolonghi. After the assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias (1831), the Senate elected him president of the temporary three-member "Administrative Commission of Greece" (27 September - 7 December), together with Theodoros Kolokotronis and Ioannis Kolettis. The opposition (an English party, i.e. islanders and Peloponnesians) turned against the triad, which it considered to be the continuation of the autocracy and the pro-Russian politics of Ioannis Kapodistrias. He also succeeded in joining Ioannis Kolettis, who was the head of the French party, and mainly reunited the stereotypes. On 5 December, the 5th National Assembly was convened in Argos and proclaimed Augustine Kapodistrias "President of the Greek Government" until the adoption of the Constitution. Opponents, calling themselves "constitutional", questioned its legitimacy. Augustine Kapodistrias' period of government was characterized by political instability and led to civil conflicts, which lasted until the summer of 1832. Two new governments were created in the newly established state: the legal one in Nafplion under Kapodistrias, which controlled the Peloponnese, and the second under Kolettis in Perachora, who was in charge of Central Greece. On March 15th, the Constitution was voted by the controversial 5th National Assembly (known as the "Hegemonic" because it provided a king as the supreme ruler), and named Augustine Kapodistrias Governor of Greece until the arrival of the king. He stayed in power for only a few days, as on 28 March 1832 he was forced to resign when the Kolettis movement prevailed. Two days later he finally departed from Greece with the Russian frigate "Paris", also carrying the remains of his brother. Augustine Kapodistrias originally settled in Corfu and then in Saint Petersburg, where he received a pension from the Russian government until his death on 19 April 1857 (1 May 1857, Gregorian Calendar). In 1840 he received the title of count from the Ionian State, still under British protection. He died unmarried in 1857 and was buried in the Monastery of Platytera in Corfu.