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Author Taki, Viktor, author.

Title Russia on the Danube : empire, elites, and reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834 / Victor Taki.

Publication Info. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 2306-3637 ; vol. 6
Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. 2306-3637 ; vol. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later, of modern Romania"-- Provided by publisher
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Early Encounters -- Introduction -- Russian-Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime -- Peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji and the Russian Protectorate -- Russian Occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806-1812 -- Church Policies under Russian Occupation -- Chapter II. Challenges of Empire-Building in a Revolutionary Age -- Introduction -- "Greek Project" of Ioannis Kapodistrias -- Bessarabian Experiment of Alexander I -- Russia's Eastern Policy and Stroganov's Mission -- Kapodistrias, Alexander I, and the Greek Rebellion -- Chapter III. The Uprisings of 1821 and Their Impact -- Introduction -- 1821 and Anti-Greek Sentiment in Moldavia and Wallachia -- Tensions among the Boyars and Their Projects of Reform -- Moldavian Boyar Radicals and Conservatives -- Convention of Akkerman -- Chapter IV. From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829) -- Introduction -- Russian Empire and the Elites of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1826-28 -- War of 1828-29 and the Russian Occupation of the Principalities -- Genesis of the Reform Agenda -- Ministerial Instructions and the Formation of the Committee of Reform -- Peace of Adrianople -- Chapter V. The Organic Statutes and Russia's Eastern Policy -- Introduction -- Boyar Opposition to the Organic Statutes -- Affair of Sion and Its Consequences -- Adoption of the Organic Statutes by the Assemblies of Revision -- Kiselev's Vision of the Principalities and Russia's Eastern Policy -- Chapter VI. A Well-Ordered Police State on the Danube -- Plague Epidemics and the Creation of the Danubian Quarantine -- Creation of Militia and Police Reform -- Fiscal Reform and Peasant Obligations -- Administrative and Judiciary Reform -- Foreign Subjects, Dedicated Monasteries, and Censorship -- Chapter VII. Russian Policies in Moldavia and Wallachia After 1834 -- Introduction -- Russia and the Problem of Unification of the Principalities -- Political Tensions in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Late 1830s -- A Cordon Sanitaire for the Empire? -- Limits of Hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Nobility -- Romania -- Wallachia -- History -- 19th century.
Nobility.
Romania -- Wallachia.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Nobility -- Moldavia -- History -- 19th century.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1801-1825.
Russia.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1801-1825
Subject Russia -- Relations -- Moldavia.
Russia -- Relations -- Romania -- Wallachia.
Relations.
Wallachia -- Relations -- Russia.
Moldavia -- Relations -- Russia.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Romania.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
Diplomatic relations.
Europe -- Moldavia.
Turkey.
Chronological Term 1288-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Empire, elites, and reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834
Other Form: Print version: Taki, Viktor. Russia on the Danube. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021 9789633863824 (DLC) 2021013874
ISBN 9789633863831 (electronic book)
963386383X (electronic book)
9789633863824 (hardcover)