The proposed topic is of great importance and aims to place Moldova in a broad Euro-
pean context at a time when the great European powers were reestablishing the old conti-
nent on new principles. So far, no monograph has been produced to define the impact of the
political and military crisis in the Rzeczpospolita in the period 1648-1674, when Sweden,
Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Transylvania fought wars with Moldavia. Both the then
rulers of Moldavia and the population of our country were involved in these confronta-
tions, and the political instability of Rzeczpospolita had a direct impact on the situation in
Moldavia.
