Constantin Stamati

Constantin Stamati was born in 1786, in Huși or in Iași, son of the paharnic Toma Stamati. He began his literary life in Iași, then settled in Chișinău after Russia's annexation of Bessarabia in 1812. A civil servant and interpreter in the tsarist administration, he was made a knight of the Order of Saint Anne. He knew Pushkin during the latter's exile in Bessarabia, contributed to the Albina românească and the Dacia literară, and was in 1866 one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy. He died on 12 September 1869 in Ocnița.

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