THE SCRIPT OF OTTOMAN - RUSSIAN TREATY OF 1812

The Russian Ottoman war of 1806 -1812 caught the Romanian Principalities as in a vise. The conflict of the two Empires proceeded on the territory of the Romanian Principalities, wit h critical consequences for the Romanian people. If until 1812 the Principalities were under the direct influence of the Sublime Porte, after the war, which was won by the Russians, these territories fell under the influence of the Russians. After the war and the Russian -Ottoman treaty, signed in Bucharest, in May 1812, Bessarabia came under the control of the Tsarist Empire, and the Ottoman Empire was compelled to retreat towards the South of the Danube