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The Tsarist Administration in Bessarabia: the Preferred Administration Regime of the Transdanubian Settlers (1818-1828)
Last modified: 2011-06-27
Abstract
The policy of the tsarist authorities in Bessarabia in the first years of occupation was dictated by the need to strengthen the military successes of the Russian Empire. The Russian authorities, having aimed to establish leadership in the Balkans, wanted to attract the sympathy of the neighboring peoples to their side by demonstrating the benefits of Russian governance in Bessarabia. The principle of applying double standards in one and the same territory stood on the basis of the administrative policy of Russian authorities in the region. The Russian authorities established the preferred administration regime for the trans-Danubian settlers who had the role to support the Russian absolutism in Bessarabia. Particularities of administrative organization of the trans-Danubian settlers, in south Bessarabia, established by Russian authorities in the period 1812-1828 have been considered.
