Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I. Early Encounters
Russian-Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the
Phanariote Regime
The Peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji and 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
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
1821 and the 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)
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 Committees of
Reform
The Peace of Adrianople
Chapter V. Organic Statutes and Russia's Eastern
Policy
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
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
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
Annex 1: Boyar Ranks of Moldavia in 1829
Annex 2: Boyar Ranks of Wallachia in 1829
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Victor Taki is Sessional lecturer at Concordia University of Edmonton. His first book Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire was published by IB Tauris. His research interests include Imperial Russia’s Balkan entanglements and the intellectual history of the eighteenth and the nineteenth century.
"Russia on the Danube will open new horizons for the study of the
Danubian principalities, Russian and Ottoman empires and the era of
revolutions where transition from empire to nation-state took
place. By going beyond nationalist tropes and perspectives that
construct the Russian Empire as essentially expansionist and
autocratic but also by highlighting the lack of communication, and
perhaps lack of studies, among Ottomanist and Russianist
historiography, Victor Taki made an invaluable contribution."
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2022/09/36801.html
*Sehepunkte*
"Recent literature shows that, after several decades of
contemptuous neglect, diplomacy and the Eastern Question are back.
Victor Taki represents an admirable contributor to this trend, just
as the case of Moldavia and Wallachia make it difficult if not
impossible to posit clear distinctions between Russia’s internal
and foreign policy. Russia on the Danube nicely demonstrates that
the empire’s history sometimes unfolded beyond the country’s
formally established borders. We still have not yet fully grasped
the implications of this fact."
*Ab Imperio*
"The book represents the first comprehensive scientific analysis of
the Russian Empire’s deliberate policy and mission in the vassal
Ottoman principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. Russia on the
Danube makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the
period and provides new insight into what happened during the
period in Moldavia and Wallachia—this is an important publication
that fills a gap. I highly recommend this interesting,
well-deserved, and professionally and effectively well-written book
to scholars." https://doi.org/10.5325/hiperboreea.10.1.0111
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