Mihail Sadoveanu

Mihail Sadoveanu was born on 5 November 1880 in Pașcani, in Moldavia, the son of the lawyer Alexandru Sadoveanu and Profira Ursachi. After secondary school in Iași, he enrolled in law at Bucharest without finishing his studies, published four books in 1904 and directed the National Theatre of Iași during the First World War. A member of the Romanian Academy in 1921, he presided over the Senate from 1931 to 1932, then became grand master of Romanian freemasonry. He held high office under the communist regime, received the Lenin Prize in 1961 and died in October of the same year.

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• NovelAncuta's InnHanul AncuțeiMihail Sadoveanu · 1928Literature