Alecu Donici

Alecu Donici was born on 19 January 1806 in the district of Orhei, the eldest of the four children of a boyar family. Educated at the military school in Saint Petersburg, he served as a second lieutenant in the Russian army, then became a civil servant in Chișinău before settling in 1835 in Iași, where his literary life took place. He translated Pushkin and, with Constantin Negruzzi, the satires of Antioch Cantemir. Pushkin stayed in the family home during his exile. He died in January 1865.

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• PoetryFabuleAlecu Donici · 1840not translated into EnglishLiterature