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The arrest of Constantin Diamandy, Romania’s plenipotentiary minister in Petrograd, on Lenin’s order
On the evening of December 31, 1917 (January 13, 1918, new style), the plenipotentiary minister of Romania in Petrograd, Constantin Diamandy, and the staff of the Royal Legation of Romania were arrested by the Bolsheviks, under Lenin’s order, and taken to the St....
The unification of Bessarabia with Romania, an accomplishment made in the most difficult moment in the history of the Romanian state
In the first two months of 1918, Romania and Bessarabia were subjected to great external pressures. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Ion I.C. Brătianu, General Alexandru Averescu was entrusted by King Ferdinand with the formation of a new Government on...
The recognition of the union of Bessarabia with Romania
Bessarabia was the first province with a majority Romanian population to join with the Old Kingdom at the end of the First World War after it declared its independence from Bolshevik Russia and formed a separate state under the name of the Moldavian Democratic...
Bessarabia, from autonomy to independence
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...