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Filimon Săteanu
Filimon Ivanovici Săteanu or Săteanul (Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet, Moldovan Cyrillic: Филимон Иванович Сэтяну; 1907 – late 1937) was a Moldovan poet and victim of the Great Purge. Though an Romanians, ethnic Romanian from Bessarabia, he was active and published in the Soviet Union's Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian Autonomous Republic (MASSR). Known publicly as a committed communist, Săteanu allegedly supported the notion that Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Moldova, Moldavians and Romanians are the same people, and was singled out as a Romanian nationalism, Romanian nationalist. This resulted in his execution by the NKVD. Biography Săteanu was born in 1907 in the village of Păpăuți, Rezina, Păpăuți on the Dniester's right bank, which was back then part of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia Governorate; Iurie Colesnic"Scriitorii transnistreni între tragedie și minciună..." in ''Timpul de dimineață, Timpul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldovan Cyrillic Alphabet
The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Romanian language spoken in the Soviet Union ( Moldovan) and was in official use from 1924 to 1932 and 1938 to 1989 (and still in use today in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria). History Until the 19th century, Romanian was usually written using a local variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. A variant based on the reformed Russian civil script, first introduced in the late 18th century, became widespread in Bessarabia after its annexation to the Russian Empire, while the rest of the Principality of Moldavia gradually switched to a Latin-based alphabet, adopted officially after its union with Wallachia that resulted in the creation of Romania. Grammars and dictionaries published in Bessarabia before 1917, both those that used the label "Moldovan" and the few that used "Romanian", used a version of the Cyrillic alphabet, with its use continuing in Bessarabia even after the 1918 union, in order to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
