Count Pavel Kiselev, a capable administrator during…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

Count Pavel Kiselev, a capable administrator during Russia's occupation of the principalities, improves health conditions, organizes a well-disciplined police force, builds up grain reserves, and oversees the drafting and ratification of the principalities' first fundamental laws, the Reglement Organique.

Russia uses these charters to co-opt Romanian boyars by protecting their privileges, including their tax-exempt status and oligarchic control of the government.

However flawed, the charters give Romanians their first taste of government by law.

The Reglement provides for elected assemblies of boyars to choose each prince, reforms the principalities' judicial systems, and establishes public education.

At the same time, the documents' economic provisions enable the boyars to stiffen peasant obligations and reduce the peasants' freedom of mobility.

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Bucharest > Bucuresti Bucuresti Romania View →

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Romanians View → Ottoman Empire View → Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Russian Empire View →

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