Victor Taki, 1812 și crearea regiunii Basarabia: constituirea provinciei sub dominația imperială rusă / 1812 and the Emergence of the Bessarabian Region: Province-Building under Russian Imperial Rule
Journal: PLURAL History Culture Society
Year: 2015

This article addresses the policies of the Russian authorities in Bessarabia in the two decades that followed the annexation of this territory in 1812. It examines the process of discursive and administrative construction of the Bessarabian province out of the territories that for centuries existed under different political jurisdictions. The article argues that the early Russian accounts of Bessarabia re-described these territories into a single whole, a province whose exotic nature and populat