Testamentele lui Dimitrie Cantemir
„The Testaments of Dimitrie Cantemir”

Summary/Abstract: The study addresses the question of the three testaments left to posterity by Dimitrie Cantemir. The first, the political one, formulated in the Diploma of Lutsk of 2 April 1711, contains two principal clauses: the hereditary transmission of autocratic state power in Moldavia to the Cantemir dynasty, and the recognition by Russia, in the person of Tsar Peter I, of the territorial integrity of the Principality of Moldavia through the recovery of the territories conquered by the Turks between 1484 and 1711. The second, the testament proper, drawn up by the prince on 22 September 1722, sets out how his estate accumulated in Russia was to be divided among his children and close associates, with Catherine I, Empress of Russia, as executor. The third concerns his entire scholarly legacy, elaborated throughout his life in the form of historical, philosophical, musical, literary, geographical and other treatises, which remained largely in manuscript and which, once published, entered the national and universal cultural heritage.

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