Emanuel or Manolache Giani Ruset (1715 – 8 March 1794) was a

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(May 1770 – October 1771), and

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(11 May 1788 – October 1788). He was a

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and member of the

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Life

Emanuel Giani Ruset is the son of a

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pope named Ioannis, Giannis, or Tzanis and Euphrosine Ruset, great-granddaughter of Prince Antonie Ruset. The

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of the name seems to be a fantasy of a cleric in various documents; in any case the phanariots, as dragogists (interpreter-translators of the "Sublime Porte") were all polyglots and sometimes Italianized or Frenchified their names. He owes his ascension to the influence of his maternal family related to the

Phanariot Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Fanariots (, , ) were members of prominent Greeks, Greek families in Fener, Phanar (Φανάρι, modern ''Fener''), the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Ecume ...

princes

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, Caradja, and Soutzos and whose name, deemed prestigious, he associates with his. Emanuel Giani Ruset had various functions including Mare Spatar ("Minister of Defense", 1757) and Mare Postelnic ("Minister of the Interior and Justice") of Moldavia (1760). He was Prince of Wallachia from May 1770 to October 1771 during the Russian military rule of the country linked to the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. He was appointed

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in May 1788 following the deposition of Alexander Ypsilántis. His second reign came to an end in March 1789, when Moldavia was occupied by Austro-Russian forces during the Austro-Russian-Turkish War (1787–1792). He then retired to Chersonese in

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where he died in 1794. He was then buried in the cathedral of Sainte-Catherine.

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