ANIVERSAREA A 200 DE ANI DE LA REVOLUȚIA DIN ANUL 1821
200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION FROM 1821

Summary/Abstract: Every year, on the eve of spring, we Romanians commemorate the unfolding of the Revolution of 1821 led by Tudor Vladimirescu. It is a national holiday that has entered the history of Romania under three names, each of them being expressive. For example, Nicolae Iorga, one of the greatest Romanian historians, called Tudor's Revolution either as a popular uprising, or as a national movement, or, more simply, as a revolution. But no matter what he called it, the main purpose of that action was the same, namely: the struggle of the Romanian people for freedom, independence, and a better life, for the Romanian people to gain the rights and freedoms they deserved. As an obvious expression of this fact, in the document entitled "Proclamation from Padeș", Tudor Vladimirescu noted the main purpose of the large uprising of the Romanian people, and made his memorable assessment: "The homeland is called the people."In 1806, Russia occupied all of Moldova and Wallachia and granted general Constantin Ypsilanti the title of the ruler of Moldavia and Wallachia. In 1802the Moldavian boyars submitted a memorandum to Emperor Napoleon I requesting his support for the establishment of an independent aristocratic-democratic republic. The Peace of Bucharest of 1812 stipulated that the RomanianPrincipalities would remain under the domination of the Ottoman Empire, except for the territory between the Prut and the Dniester (Bessarabia), which passed under the domination of Russia. In 1819 the number of Phanariot families who could run for the principalities was reduced to a maximum of 4.

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