The Image of Vasile Alecsandri in the Municipality of Chișinău

In this article we investigate how the image of Vasile Alecsandri, politician, minister, diplomat, founding member of the Romanian Academy, creator of the Romanian Theater and dramatic literature in Romania, prominent personality of the Principality of Moldova and then of modern Romania after 1859, whose portrait is present in every pre-university institution in the Republic of Moldova. During post-war period, the creation of Vasile Alecsandri was similar to Mihai Eminescu's, both being banned. In 1948, the commission was created to determine the membership of culture and art personalities in the following categories: Moldovan writers, Moldovan and Romanian writers, and Romanian writers. In 1950, the leadership of the republic reviewed some of the banned names and they were declassified. Accordingly, the publication in 1951-1952 of the creation of M. Eminescu and Vasile Alecsandri was reinstated. Vasile Alecsandri was rehabilitated for the following reasons that I selected from the Encyclopedia of Chisinau from 1984. I presented the street that in the Soviet period bore the  writer's name. During the period of independence, it was renamed one of the main arteries of the city of Chisinau. In 1997, the matte bronze monument of Vasile Alecsandri was installed in front of the National Library. The sculpture was created by Ion Zderciuc (b. 1957) who is an admirer of the illustrious playwright's creation, part of an art exhibition named ‟Vasile Alecsandri in small plastic”.