He graduated from the School of Xanthi and then went to Smyrna to study at the famous Evangelical School. He was arrested by the Turks in 1875 and taken to Constantinople as a hostage. He attended the Imperial Lyceum. In 1878 he escaped to Corfu and from there to Epirus, where he joined the liberation struggle. He was arrested and exiled to Trikala. He returned to Souli and again participated in the revolutionary groups, was again arrested and sentenced to death. He escaped to Thessaly and from there to Athens in 1885.

He worked as an editor at the newspaper “Akropolis” of Vl. He worked as a journalist for V. Gavrielides. He also collaborated with other magazines where he published his prose works. He joined the company “Hellenism” of Neocles Kazazis, also a Mason. After the liberation of Epirus, Christovassilis settled in Ioannina and published the newspaper “Eleftheria”. He became a politician with the People’s Party and was elected as a deputy of Ioannina in 1926 and 1935. His literary work was flooded with his patriotic beliefs and visions. A devotee of demoticism, he fought against the sophisticated and the contrived. The works are ethnographic and based on the folklore of our country. Apart from short stories, he also wrote plays : For Honor, Katsantonis, the lovelorn shoemaker and poetry collections, The Marbled King, Love, Marcos Bottsaris, Stories from the years of slavery and the Little School, etc.