Was Alexander Ypsilandis struck off the list of officers of the russian army?

Abstract

According to most historians, the Tsar of Russia Alexander I, being
informed about the outbreak of the Greek Revolution at Iasi, Moldavia
(February 24,1821), issued an “imperial decree” at Laybach, where the members
of the Holy Alliance were in congress. According to this decree the leader
of the Greek Revolution Al. Ypsilandis, major-general of the Russian army
and former aide-de-camp to the Tsar, was struck off the list of officers of the
imperial army.
The author of the present paper, based on the available historical sources
proves that: 1) The Tsar never issued an “imperial decree” referring to
the revolutionary events of 1821 in the Romanian Principalities; what the
historians believed so far as an “imperial decree” proved to be a communiqué
published in the Austrian newspaper Österreichischer Beobachter (issue no
89/30 March 1821), 2) Al. Ypsilandis first withdrew from active service in
April 1820 and then resigned both in practice and by formal request on
February 24, 1821 (OS); his resignation was accepted by the Tsar on March
14/25, 1821 and 3) Al. Ypsilandis was not “struck off” the list of the officers
of the Russian army, but he was simply “excluded from the Russian military
service”; this imperial decision aimed at impressing the European public
opinion and, especially, the revolted Greeks, who expected Russia to support
their War of Independence.