Considerations concerning the Functionality of Bessarabia’s Provisional Administrative System during the First Years of Russian Domination (1812-1816)

Abstract

The paper details the first five years of Russian administration in Bessarabia, a period in which an interesting dispute existed between the Russian civil servants, eager to remove all local regional particularities and to unify the provincial administration with that of the Empire, and the local Moldavian nobility, who struggled for the preservation of the old legal principles and administrative customs, with the use of the Romanian language in all the domains of activity.