The book, based on the study of archival documents, other historical sources, as well as available literature and memoirs, for the first time in historiography covers the biographies of all the leaders of Bessarabia from the moment the region joined Russia in 1812 until the beginning of the occupation of Bessarabia by royal Romania. The biographies of all the top leaders, from the first civil governor of the region, Skarlat Sturdza, to the provincial commissar of the Provisional Government, Konstantin Mimi, make it possible to convexly and substantively assess the role of Russian politics in the history of the Moldovan people for more than a century of the region being part of a single empire, and then a republic. Each of the Russian rulers of this particle of the country was a person and played one or another role in the history of our homeland. The author tried to identify this role and clearly show the reader.