After the signing of the Peace Treaty between Russian and Turkish in May 16 (28), 1812 in Bucharest, the land between the Prut and the Nistru (named Bessarabia) which covered an area of 45,360 km2 being bigger than the territory of the Principality of Moldova from which it was taken, was annexed to Tsarist Russia. If in the first years after the occupation the Russian Empire granted to Bessarabia some autonomy, later the last one was transformed into a Russian province, with all the Russian colonial regime’s atrocities. To create a social base of the tsarism, the Russian Empire introduces on the territory the full Russian provincial administration; for the easier Russification of the native population it was intensified the forced colonization, especially with the allophones. Soon Romanian language was removed from the official institutions, being applied a politics of Russification through administration, school and church.