Editing Moldavia (section)

===Organic Statute, 1848 revolution===
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[[File:Princely Court of Jassy.jpg|thumb|Iași, [[Palace of Culture (Iași)|Princely Palace]] of Moldavia]]

Phanariote rule was officially ended after the 1821 occupation of the country by [[Alexander Ypsilantis]]'s [[Filiki Eteria]] during the [[Greek War of Independence]]; the subsequent Ottoman retaliation led to the rule of [[Ioan Sturdza]]. He was considered the first of a new system, since the Ottomans and Russia had agreed in 1826 to allow for the election by locals of rulers over the two [[Danubian Principalities]], and convened on their mandating for seven-year terms. In practice, a new foundation to reigns in Moldavia was created by the [[Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)]], beginning a period of Russian domination over the two countries which ended only in 1856. Begun as a military occupation under the command of [[Pavel Kiselyov]], Russian domination gave Wallachia and Moldavia, which were not removed from nominal Ottoman control, the modernizing ''[[Regulamentul Organic|Organic Statute]]'' (the first document resembling a [[constitution]], as well as the first to regard both principalities). After 1829, the country also became an important destination for [[immigration]] of [[Ashkenazi Jews]] from the [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]] and areas of Russia (''see [[History of the Jews in Romania]] and [[Sudiți]]'').

[[File:Obeliscul cu lei Iasi 02.JPG|thumb|Iași, [[Copou Park|Obelisk of Lions]] (1834), dedicated to the Organic Statute]]

The first Moldavian rule established under the Statute, that of [[Mihail Sturdza]], was nonetheless ambivalent: eager to reduce abuse of office, Sturdza introduced reforms (the abolition of slavery, [[secularization]], economic rebuilding), but he was widely seen as enforcing his own power over that of the newly instituted consultative Assembly. A supporter of the union of his country with Wallachia and of Romanian [[Romantic nationalism]], he obtained the establishment of a [[customs union]] between the two countries (1847) and showed support for [[Radicalism (historical)|radical]] projects favored by low boyars; nevertheless, he clamped down with noted violence the [[Wallachian Revolution of 1848|Moldavian revolutionary attempt]] in the last days of March 1848. [[Grigore Alexandru Ghica]] allowed the exiled revolutionaries to return to Moldavia c. 1853, which led to the creation of the [[National Party (Romania)|National Party]] ({{lang|ro|Partida Națională}}), a trans-boundary group of radical union supporters which campaigned for a single state under a foreign dynasty.