Front cover
Front matter
Series title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I: Early Encounters
Russian–Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime
The Treaty 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
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 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 Committee of Reform
The Peace of Adrianople
Chapter V: The 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
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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