Collective mentalities of the nobility in Bessarabia in the second half of the 19th century

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 19th century, especially in the environment of the elites. The phenomenon is part of the general spirit of the 19th century, when the modernization and secularization of societies was fully affirmed, and with it the change of spiritual and cultural priorities. Keywords: nobility, Bessarabia, tsarist