THE BESSARABIAN PROBLEM IN THE FRANCO-BRITISH RELATIONS AFTER THE CRIMEAN WAR (1856)

Abstract

After the defeat of Russia in the Crimea War, the problem of Bessarabia Bessarabia attention of the great powers. The Peace preliminaries in the January 1856 established that Russia must cede southern Bessarabia to Principality of Moldavia, but the Russian Empire will seek various reasons to shirk enforcement this point. The Great Britain and France, allies during the Crimean War, have divergent points in the Bessarabian question. The Government of SaintJames support the idea that southern Bessarabia must be assigned to Moldavia, without any kind of compensation for Russia. The French government supports Russian point of view, that southern Bessarabia should remain to Russia, because it is the center of the Bulgarian colony. The 1856 year was an intense diplomatic struggle between the French and British, for the southern Bessarabia.

Keywords

• bessarabia
• tsarism
• the great powers
• treaty of paris
• diplomacy