Alexandru Yatymirschi – promoter of Romanianism in the Russian empire

The study of Al. Yatymirschi from 1903 presents an excellent examination of the investigations of the most notable researchers from the end of the 18th century - the 19th century, who were concerned with the problem of the ethnogenesis of the Romanians. We emphasize - the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people. The author never mentions the false phrase, ,,ethnogenesis of the Moldavian people” introduced as a ,,scientific” phrase during the Soviet period, and when trying to prove the existence of the ,,Moldovan people”, especially the Romanian people. Al. Yatymirschi demonstrated to the Russian scholarly world, including the Bessarabian intelligentsia, who still used the phrase ,,Moldovan people” and sought its origin, that European scholars were investigating the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people, not the ,,Moldovan people”, the linguistic and ethnic unity of residents of Moldova, Wallachia and Transylvania, including Bessarabia. In this context, the current Moldovanism, after 1991, is a consequence of the Russian imperial policy promoted in Bessarabia, continued in the Soviet era, but also in the Republic of Moldova, by certain political forces.