Kishinev: The Character and Development of a Tsarist Frontier Town*

In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 19-37

Abstract

At the Treaty of Bucharest in 1812, Russia annexed the eastern half of Moldavia, the territory between the Dnestr and Prut Rivers, which it called "Bessarabia." One historian argues that this was an effort to circumvent the Tilsit agreement with Napoleon in which Russia had agreed to vacate both Romanian principalities. Since Tilsit "did not mention 'Bessarabia' the Russian troops could remain there."