Преселването на българите в Дунавските княжества по време на Руско-турската война от 1806–1812 г. в историографията
The Resettlement of the Bulgarians in the Danube Principalities during the Russian-Turkish War of 1806-1812 in Historiography

Summary/Abstract: The researchers collected a large body of ethnographic and statistical data about Bulgarian migrants during the Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812. At the same time, historians have developed different views on the reasons for the resettlement of Bulgarians. Several researchers (A. Klaus, W. Konobeev, N. Kazakov, St. Doinov, I. Nistor) noted that the interest of the tsarist government in setting the Bulgarians on state lands was primarily explained by economic challenges: the need for economic development of the region’s most thinly populated and a nationwide market. Appreciating the system of state development activities in South Russia, some of them (E. Belova, G. Dragomir, I. Mescheryuk) illustrate the relationship between of its external and internal aspects that cast tsarism to encourage migrants who passed to the right side of the Danube. Still, a group of historians (K. Veliki, I. Greek and N. Chervenkov) were able to show the interaction of reasons: political - interest of tsarism, the result of wars, economic - lack of land for the Bulgarians, social - persecutions and repressions of religious forms that contributed to the resettlement of the Bulgarians to the north of the Danube. Another group of investigators (S. Arbore, T. Holban, P. Cazacu, L. Boga), set themselves to the task of showing that the migration of Bulgarians in Bessarabia had no effect on the Romanian nature of given territory and, unreasonably, tried to prove that number of Transdanubian migrants was lower than the official statistics show. Finally, it must be said that the subject resettlement of Bulgarians during the Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812 is not fully displayed in special studies, which should stimulate the historians to research unexplored materials from the Romanian archives, which can lead to reassessment of some old interpretations and formulations.

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