Following unsuccessful armed attempts of Petru Rares and Ioan Voda the Valiant to liberate the land from the Ottoman suzerainty, a new orientation of governing is shaped in this period, meant to use in the struggle for independence the help of powerful countries or their disagreements. 
This led to the establishment of the Phanariot Greeks’ domination and transformation of the country into the real arena of Russian-Turkish wars, the consequence being the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire in 1812.