The change of mentality is a lasting process, carried out in special political, socio-economic and cultural
conditions. In this sense, the influence of the tsarist domination regime, through all the policies promoted in the area
between the Prut and the Dniester Rivers, generated some changes in the environment of the Bessarabian population
in the second half of the 19 th century, especially in the environment of the elites. The phenomenon is part of the gen-
eral spirit of the 19 th century, when the modernization and secularization of societies was fully affirmed, and with it the
change of spiritual and cultural priorities.
