by Iulian Simbeteanu | Jun 10, 2019 | Romania, Russian Empire, World War I in 1918
Romania’s decision to enter the First World War on the side of the Entente in the summer of 1916 seemed at first glance like an abandonment not only of Bessarabia, the old territory of the Moldavian voivodeship occupied by the Russian Empire in 1812, but also of the... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Oct 9, 2018 | Programmatic Documents, Romania, Russian Empire
On March 27, 1918, Bessarabia, through the Council of the Country, decided to unite with the Motherland. 86 votes were for and only three against. The Romanians welcomed their brethren from beyond the Prut and on the next day the Romanian authorities decided that the... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Oct 8, 2018 | Programmatic Documents, Romania, Russian Empire
The Royal Decree promulgating the act of the union of Bessarabia with Romania, signed by the President of the Council of Ministers Alexandru Marghiloman, the Justice Minister D. Dobrescu and King Ferdinand I: “Ferdinand I, By the Grace of God and the National Will,... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Aug 8, 2018 | New or Changed Borders, Romania, Russian Empire
The fall of Tsarism following the February Revolution in 1917 made it possible for Bessarabia to unite with Romania. The Moldavian delegates at the Congress of the Peoples of Russia, held in Kiev in September 1917, demanded a wide autonomy for Moldavia within the... by admin | Jan 20, 2018 | Romania, Russian Empire
On the 6th of January (according to the new calendar 19th of January) 1918 a bloody conflict took place in Chișinău, the capital of the new Moldavian Democratic Republic. The Russian Bolsheviks in Frontotdel, a branch of the ROMCEROD Bolshevik organization in Odessa,...