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Alecu Russo

Died in 1859

Alecu Russo was born on 17 March 1819 in Bessarabia, at Prodăneștii Vechi, near Chișinău. Orphaned of his mother in 1829, he was sent to study in Switzerland, near Geneva, where he wrote his first texts in French. Back in Moldavia in 1839, a civil servant at the court of Piatra Neamț, he had a comedy staged in 1846 that got him banished to the monastery of Soveja. He took part in the 1848 movement, went to Transylvania and then to Paris, and died in Iași on 5 February 1859.

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