Russia on the Danube : : Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834 / / Victor Taki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Taki, Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)

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 diverg...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Early Encounters
• Introduction
• Russian–Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime
• The 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
• The “Greek Project” of Ioannis Kapodistrias
• The 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
• The Convention of Akkerman
• Chapter IV. From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829)
• Introduction
• The Russian Empire and the Elites of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1826–28
• The War of 1828–29 and the Russian Occupation of the Principalities
• The Genesis of the Reform Agenda
• Ministerial Instructions and the Formation of the Committee of Reform
• The Peace of Adrianople
• Chapter V. The Organic Statutes and Russia’s Eastern Policy
• Introduction
• Boyar Opposition to the Organic Statutes
• The Affair of Sion and Its Consequences
• The 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
• Plague Epidemics and the Creation of the Danubian Quarantine
• The 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?
• The Limits of Hegemony
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index