1st Edition
Russia on the Danube Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834
By Victor Taki
Copyright 2022
388 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter I. Early Encounters, Chapter II. Challenges of Empire-Building in a Revolutionary Age, Chapter III. The Uprisings of 1821 and Their Impact, Chapter IV. From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829, Chapter V. Organic Statutes and Russia's Eastern Policy, Chapter VI. A Well-Ordered Police State on the Danube, Chapter VII. Russian Policies in Moldavia and Wallachia After 1834, Annex 1: Boyar Ranks of Moldavia in 1829, Annex 2: Boyar Ranks of Wallachia in 1829, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Biography
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.
