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