Iulia Hașdeu (1869 -1882) – the girl with the golden pen

Iulia Hasdeu was born on November 14, 1869. At 6 years and 7 months, she wrote a novel about the life and deeds of Michael the Brave. At the age of eight she graduated from the primary school, already enjoying French, English and German, and Continue Reading

Efrosinia Cuza (1856-1910)

Efrosinia Cuza debuted on February 23, 1894, at the stage of Mariinskii Theater in Sankt Petersburg, playing Valentina’s role in “Hughenotii”. Another success was the participation at the Panaev Theater in St. Petersburg in the opera “Aida”. After this debut she was admitted to the Continue Reading

Daria Harjevschi (1862-1934)

Is a director of the Public City Library in Chisinau (the only gubernial library that was sustained by the state) from 1884 until 1917. For training herself went to Harkov, Poltava and Odesa in 1899, during this trip she created the the alphabetically-systematic catalog of Continue Reading

Cleopatra Hrșanovschi (1861-1939) – composer

Cleopatra Hrshanovschi (1861, Chisinau – March 15th, 1939, Chisinau) – lied singer, professor and composer. Graduates the Conservatory in Moscow, canto class (1882-1886), and coming back in Chisinau becomes a teacher and the founder of the Private Music School  “Clasa cantului individual” (“Class of individual Continue Reading

Arionescu-Baillayre Lidia (1880 – 1923)

Arionescu-Baillayre Lidia, (22.03.1880, Chisinau – 1923, Chisinau), painter. She had finished the Art School in Chisinau (V. Ocushko studio) and Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg (I. Dmitriev-Kavkazski studio, 1907), together with V. Doncev and A. Baillayre. She participated in exhibitions in Saint-Petersburg and Vilno (1903-1910), Continue Reading