Pages: 15-25 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2261525

The author uses his personal contacts with V. Ya. Grosul and the latter’s studies to discover the role of the well-known Moldovan and Russian researcher in his evolution as a student of history and culture of Bulgarians and Gagauz from Budjak. He points out the wide scholarly interests of V. Ya. Grosul in studying history of Moldavia, Romania, Russia and Russian-Balkan social and political relations. He pays special attention to Moldo-Wallachian and Moldo-Romanian ethno-cultural and ethno-political relations in the context of their historical identity and geopolitical fight between Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Western European states for the influence over the Danube principalities in the modern age. The annex contains an abridged list of V. Ya. Grosul’s monographs and articles, as well as books by Soviet, Russian and Moldavian historians and cultural researchers, edited by V. Ya. Grosul.

Keywords: Moldavia, Romania, Russia, Danube principalities, Balkans, social-political relations, ethno-cultural relations

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Ivan Grek (Kishinev, Moldova). Doctor of History.
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