Treaty of Lutsk


The Treaty of the Lutsk was a secret agreement signed in Lutsk, Poland-Lithuania between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Protectorate of Moldavia on 13 April 1711, shortly after the outbreak of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11, by which the Ottoman Protectorate of Kara Bogdan supported Russia in its war against the Ottomans with troops, and by allowing the Russian army to cross its territory and place garrisons in Moldavian fortresses. The Moldavian party was represented by the Metropolitan of Moldavia Ghedeon. The text of the treaty was elaborated entirely by Ottoman Hospodar Dimitrie Cantemir former musician of the Sultan. who broke his oath to the Sultan and promised to become the suzeran of the Russian Tsar.

Articles of the treaty

In the preamble of the Treaty and in Article I, Dimitrie Cantemir worships the tsar, receiving in return protection from Peter I, for himself and for all the people of Moldavia. In article it is provided that the lord of Moldavia "with all the great boyars and her nobles and with the inhabitants of any state of the glorious Moldavian people" should henceforth be under the protection of the tsar, and will take an oath of obedience, first in secret, until at the entry of the Russian armies into the principality, and until then the voivode to carry his faith secretly "by correspondence and other means."
According to Article II, the lord of Moldovia had to join the army of the Russian army.
Articles III - V provided that the heirs of the Russian throne do not have the right to rule in Moldovia or in the Wallachian land. In Moldovia, the reign was to be hereditary in the Cantemir family.
Article VI provided that: "According to the old Moldovan custom, all power should be with the lord." The tsar could not interfere in the internal affairs of Moldovia.
Article XI provided that the borders of the principality, according to its ancient rights, are those described with the river Dnieper, Camenețu, Bender, with all Budjak, Danube, Muntenia, the Grand Duchy of Transylvania and with Poland.
According to Articles XII - XV, Russian protection over Moldovia was to be maintained after the conclusion of the peace, in the sense that Peter would not leave Moldovia under the domination of the Gate.
Articles XVI and XVII contain the oaths of Peter I and Dimitrie Cantemir.

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