Tudor Vladimirescu: Encyclopedia II - Tudor Vladimirescu - Legacy

Tudor Vladimirescu - Legacy

Tudor's rebellion ensured that Wallachia would stay under military occupation. Although the situation was stabilized by August, Turkish troops remained present until 1826. However, as they could no longer trust Phanariote rule in the face of its infiltration by Greek nationalism (Ypsilanti himself came from a Phanariote family - see Alexandru Ipsilanti, his grandfather, and Constantin Ipsilanti, his father), the Turks returned the two Principalities to rule by and through locals (in 1822): Grigore IV Ghica in Wallachia, Ioan Sturdza (Ioniţă Sandu Sturdza) in Moldavia. The changes in the situation were to be confirmed by the Treaty of Adrianople and Russian occupation (at the end of the Russo-Turkish War).

Although the scope of his movement appealed to generations of Romanian nationalists, Tudor Vladimirescu's most favorable treatment came with the official ideology of the Romanian People's Republic (the first period of Communist Romania, lasting from 1948 to 1965). He was made to look "progressive", and it also helped that he considered himself an ally to the Russian cause, almost as a precursor of the Soviet alliance.

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