Bust to departed poet, donated by Moldovan commune, inaugurated in Romanian settlement

Chisinau 28 March /MOLDPRES/ - The mayoralty of the Zaim village, south-eastern Causeni district, has donated a bust to poet Alexei Mateevici to the settlement Poiana Campina of Romania. The bust was inaugurated at the headquarters of the Poiana Campina mayoralty, in the presence of a delegation from Zaim, on 27 March. 

"The today’s event takes place when we mark the 101st anniversary of Bessarabia’s union with Romania, the union of the first historical province with the Mother Country. I thank from my heart the brothers from beyond the Prut river for this extraordinary present. Day after day, this relation between us is strong and stronger and we will not stop here; we have projects which we will implement and we will develop together,” the mayor of the Poiana Campina commune, Alin Moldoveanu, has said.     

"We show everybody that the union is not made through shouts, but by small, common, useful things, which make us feel here, in Poiana at home, and those from Poiana Campina feel at home when they come to Zaim. This is what union means: to know, support each other, to be together. If people are united, it means that our communes are really united,” the mayor of the Zaim commune, Ion Veste, said, quoted by the website www.campinatv.ro.   

At the ceremony on the bust’s inauguration, the director of the Alexei Mateevici Memorial Museum from Zaim, professor Ion Gaina, referred to the personality of Mateevici and what the Communist period had meant for the Bessarabians.     

The local authorities of Zaim and Poiana Campina carried out more joint activities, due to a twinning relationship, established between the two communes. Thus, on the National Day of Romania, the mayor of the Poiana Campina commune, Alin Moldoveanu, went to Zaim with busts of six rulers, three of Wallachia and three of Moldova. At that time, the Alley of Rulers was inaugurated outside the mayoralty of Zaim, which is “an evidence of the blood relation, which no border can break.”   

Alexei Mateevici was born in Cainari, Tighina county, in the family of priest Mihail Mateevici and Nadejda Neaga, on 16 March 1888. He studied at the primary school from Zaim, presently Causeni district. As a poet, Alexei Mateevici remained memorable with the poem Limba Noastră (Our Language), written just two months before his premature death in 1917. His entire works have 47 titles. At present, the memorial houses A. Mateevici work in Cainari and Zaim and more lyceums from the district bear the name of the departed poet. The Mateevici Poetry Days are organized in the settlement each spring.