National Romanian poet paid homage at 169th birthday anniversary in Moldova

Chisinau, 15 January /MOLDPRES/ - National poet Mihai Eminescu was paid homage at his 169th birthday anniversary in Chisinau today.  The event is part of a string of cultural actions, organized on the National Culture Day, marked in Moldova and Romania on the same day.   

On this occasion, President Igor Dodon, Education, Culture and Research Minister Monica Babuc, MPs, ministers, politicians, writers, culture people, admirers of Eminescu’s works laid flowers at the bust to the great Romanian poet on the Alley of Classics of the Romanian Literature from the Stefan cel Mare Public Garden.

A recital of poetry and music, as well as an action of evoking the personality of the poet, held by culture and art people, took place also here. In her speech, Education, Culture and Research Minister Monica Babuc said that Mihai Eminescu, in fact, had created the spiritual culture of the nation. According to the official, the best tributes paid to the poet would be to know his works and follow his example. At the same time, Babuc noted that, also today, we mark the National Culture Day, stressing that as long as we celebrate this date, we will exist as nation.     

For his part, the head of the Writers’ Union of Moldova, Arcadie Suceveanu, said that the birthday of Eminescu was a holiday of the Romanian word, marked in the entire space of Eminescu’s spirituality. “At the 169th birthday anniversary, Mihai Eminescu has been and will remain our contemporary. He is always up-to-date and conveys us immortal artistic beauties, modeling truths, which prove us who are we in history, what is happening with our human values,” Arcadie Suceveanu stressed.  

In the context, the director of the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute, Valeriu Matei, said that the love for Eminescu, for the Romanian word was always alive. More well-known writers from Moldova and Romania took the floor also here.  

On the same day, an exhibition titled, Mihai Eminescu – The Heart of the World Beats in Me, was inaugurated on the circus nearby the Monument to Stefan cel Mare. At the same time, an exhibition of books, photos and literary documents, titled, Aron Pumnul and Mihai Eminescu (from collections of the Mihail Kogalniceanu National Museum) was opened at the headquarters of the Moldovan Writers’ Union. A National Scientific Symposium dedicated to the 200th birthday anniversary of Aron Pumnul (teacher of Mihai Eminescu) took place also here.    

Mihai Eminescu, regarded by the posthumous literary critic as the most important poetic voice of the Romanian literature, was born in Botosani, Romania, on 15 January 1850 and died in Bucharest on 15 June 1889. On 28 October 1948, Mihai Eminescu was posthumously elected member of the Romanian Academy.    

The National Culture Day was established under a parliament decision in April 2012 and is aimed at promoting the national culture, authentic cultural values, as well as the artistic personalities of the culture sector. Marked in different ways in various countries, the National Culture Day in Moldova is dedicated to the birthday of the great poet Mihai Eminescu – personality who defines the essential values of the national culture.