Russia on the Danube Taki Victor Concordia University of Edmonton
Russia on the Danube Taki Victor Concordia University of Edmonton One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube,…
Specifikacia Russia on the Danube Taki Victor Concordia University of Edmonton
Russia on the Danube Taki Victor Concordia University of Edmonton
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. Victor Taki's meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the crucial consequences of this encounter. 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 comprehensive institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar's officials consolidated territorial statehood on the The Moldavian and Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to preserve and expand their traditional autonomy.