At the time of annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire, the Russian imperial institutions lacked concrete and reliable information on the number of people in the newly annexed province. The lack of statistical data ...

Dans la présente étude, l’auteur analyse les deux catégories privilégiées de population dans la Principauté de Moldavie – les Mazilis et les Ruptaş et détermine les changements qui se sont produits au fil des ans dans le ...

Based on unpublished archival data, the author analyzes forms of protests and riots of mazili and ruptashi from Bessarabia in the first decades after its annexation. The author ascertains that while mazili and ruptashi ...

In this study, the author explores the issue of the social status of boierinaşi in Bessarabia under Tsarist rule. The author notes that after the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire, the imperial authorities ...