The text of the treaty was elaborated entirely by Moldavian Hospodar Dimitrie Cantemir, who broke his oath to the Sultan and promised to become the vassal of the Russian tsar.
In the preamble and in Article I, Dimitrie Cantemir worships the tsar, receiving in return protection from Peter I for himself and for all the people of Moldavia.
It is provided that the lord of Moldavia "with all the great boyars and her nobles and with the inhabitants of any state of the glorious Moldavian people" should henceforth be under the protection of the tsar and will take an oath of obedience at first in secret, until at the entry of the Russian armies into the principality and then, the voivode will carry his faith secretly "by correspondence and other means".
Articles III to V provide that the heirs of the Russian throne do not have the right to rule in Moldavia or in the Wallachian land.
Article XI provides that the borders of the principality, according to its ancient rights, are those described with the Dniester River, Camenețu, Bender, with all of Budjak, Danube, Muntenia, the Grand Duchy of Transylvania and Poland.