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

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nChapter I. Early Encounters\nIntroduction\nRussian–Ottoman Confrontation and the Establishment of the Phanariot Regime\nThe Peace of Kuchuk-Kainarji and the Russian Protectorate\nRussian Occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806–1812\nChurch Policies under Russian Occupation\nChapter II. Challenges of Empire-Building in a Revolutionary Age\nIntroduction\nThe “Greek Project” of Ioannis Kapodistrias\nThe Bessarabian Experiment of Alexander I\nRussia’s Eastern Policy and Stroganov’s Mission\nKapodistrias, Alexander I, and the Greek Rebellion\nChapter III. The Uprisings of 1821 and Their Impact\nIntroduction\n1821 and Anti-Greek Sentiment in Moldavia and Wallachia\nTensions among the Boyars and Their Projects of Reform\nMoldavian Boyar Radicals and Conservatives\nThe Convention of Akkerman\nChapter IV. From Akkerman (1826) to Adrianople (1829)\nIntroduction\nThe Russian Empire and the Elites of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1826–28\nThe War of 1828–29 and the Russian Occupation of the Principalities\nThe Genesis of the Reform Agenda\nMinisterial Instructions and the Formation of the Committee of Reform\nThe Peace of Adrianople\nChapter V. The Organic Statutes and Russia’s Eastern Policy\nIntroduction\nBoyar Opposition to the Organic Statutes\nThe Affair of Sion and Its Consequences\nThe Adoption of the Organic Statutes by the Assemblies of Revision\nKiselev’s Vision of the Principalities and Russia’s Eastern Policy\nChapter VI. A Well-Ordered Police State on the Danube\nPlague Epidemics and the Creation of the Danubian Quarantine\nThe Creation of Militia and Police Reform\nFiscal Reform and Peasant Obligations\nAdministrative and Judiciary Reform\nForeign Subjects, Dedicated Monasteries, and Censorship\nChapter VII. Russian Policies in Moldavia and Wallachia After 1834\nIntroduction\nRussia and the Problem of Unification of the Principalities\nPolitical Tensions in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Late 1830s\nA Cordon Sanitaire for the Empire?\nThe Limits of Hegemony\nConclusion\nAppendix 1\nAppendix 2\nGlossary\nBibliography\nIndex