AUTHOR: Olena FEDENKO Danubius, XXXIV-Supliment, Galaţi, 2016, pp. 31-42. Abstract This article is dedicated to the analysis of the activity of Italian merchants in Odessa in the ХІХ century. More specifically, the prerequisites, general principles, directions of development and results of this activity in connection with the trade policy of the Russian Empire are explained….

AUTHOR: Arthur Viorel TULUŞ Danubius, XXXV, Galaţi, 2017, pp. 117-132. Abstract The Black Sea came back into the attention of European diplomacy in the first half of the XIXth century, on the background of tsarist Russia’s expansion politics towards the Straits, with domination of the Mouths of the Danube being a mandatory step in that…