Yakin ya barke a cikin 1805-1806 a kan tushen yakin Napoleon.A cikin 1806, Sultan Selim na III, wanda aka ƙarfafa shi daga shan kashi na Rasha a Austerlitz kuma daular Faransa ta ba da shawara, ya kori Constantine Ypsilantis mai goyon bayan Rasha a matsayin Hospodar na sarauta na Wallachia da Alexander Mourousis a matsayin Hospodar na Moldavia, duka jihohin Ottoman vassal.A lokaci guda, daular Faransa ta mamaye Dalmatiya kuma ta yi barazanar shiga cikin sarakunan Danubian a kowane lokaci.Domin kare kan iyakar Rasha daga yiwuwar kai wa Faransa hari, dakarun Rasha 40,000 sun shiga Moldavia da Wallachia.Sultan ya mayar da martani ta hanyar toshe Dardanelles zuwa jiragen ruwa na Rasha tare da shelanta yaki akan Rasha.A cewar yarjejeniyar, daular Ottoman ta mika rabin gabashin Moldavia ga kasar Rasha (wadda ta sauya sunan yankin zuwa Bessarabia), duk da cewa ta himmatu wajen kare yankin.Rasha ta zama sabon iko a yankin Danube na ƙasa, kuma tana da iyaka ta fuskar tattalin arziki, diflomasiyya, da ribar soji.A ranar 11 ga watan Yuni ne Alexander I na kasar Rasha ya amince da wannan yerjejeniyar, kimanin kwanaki 13 kafin fara mamayewar Napoleon a Rasha.Kwamandojin sun sami damar mayar da da yawa daga cikin sojojin Rasha a yankin Balkan zuwa yankunan yamma kafin harin da ake sa ran na Napoleon.