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Vladimir Herța
Vladimir or Wladimir Herța, also known as Hertza or de Hertza (; 14 May 1868 – 3 August 1924), was a Bessarabian-born politician, entrepreneur, jurist, and amateur singer. He was initially active in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, where his family owned large estates that became his main source of revenue. He claimed descent from boyardom, and as such both Romanian ethnicity and inclusion within Russian nobility, but his account was disputed. Herța also trained as a lawyer and established a legal practice in Kishinev (Chișinău), where he built himself a Baroque Revival villa, used for political gatherings during and after the Russian Revolution of 1905. In that context, he was a liberal-conservative member of the ''zemstvo'', who embraced some tenets of Romanian nationalism while criticizing its separatist aspirations in Bessarabia. Especially after the revolutionary events, he established himself in the Kingdom of Romania, alternating between Iași and B ...
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Mayor Of Chișinău
The Mayor of Chișinău, officially the General Mayor of the Municipality of Chișinău (), is the head of the executive branch of Chișinău's government and a member of the city's Municipal Council. History The first mayor of Chișinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the end of the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor. List of mayors Throughout the passing of time, the mayors of the city of Chișinău Chișinău ( , , ; formerly known as Kishinev) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Moldova, largest city of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre, and is located in the middle of the coun ... have been the following ones: Russian Empire Moldavian Democratic Republic Kingdom of Romania Moldavian SSR Chairmen of the Chișinău City Executive Committee. Republic of Moldova ...
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Russian Revolution Of 1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first. The revolution was characterized by mass political and social unrest including worker strikes, peasant revolts, and military mutinies directed against Tsar Nicholas II and the autocracy, who were forced to establish the State Duma legislative assembly and grant certain rights, though both were later undermined. In the years leading up to the revolution, impoverished peasants had become increasingly angered by repression from their landlords and the continuation of semi-feudal relations. Further discontent grew due to mounting Russian losses in the Russo-Japanese War, poor conditions for workers, and urban unemployment. On , known as " Bloody Sunday", a peaceful procession of workers was fired on by guards outside th ...
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Ukrainian People's Republic
The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe. Prior to its proclamation, the Central Council of Ukraine was elected in March 1917 Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, as a result of the February Revolution, and in June, it First Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council, declared Ukrainian autonomy within Russia. Its autonomy was later recognized by the Russian Provisional Government. Following the October Revolution, the Central Council of Ukraine denounced the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik seizure of power and Third Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council, proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic with a territory including the area of approximately eight Russian imperial governorates (Kiev Governorate, Kiev, Volhynia Governorate, Volhynia, Kharkov Governorate, Kharkov, Kherson Governorate, Kherson, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Yekaterinoslav, Poltava Governorate, Poltava, Chernigov Governorate, Chernigov and Podolia Governorate, Podolia). It F ...
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Russian Provisional Government
The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II on 2 March, O.S. New_Style.html" ;"title="5 March 1917, New Style">N.S. during the February Revolution. The intention of the provisional government was the organization of elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and its convention. The provisional government, led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky, lasted approximately eight months, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks gained power in the October Revolution in October ovember, N.S.1917. According to Harold Whitmore Williams, the history of the eight months during which Russia was ruled by the Provisional Government was the history of the steady and systematic disorganization of the army. The Provisional Government was a caretaker government, with its political system and the status of the monarc ...
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Paul Gore (historian)
Paul Gore (27 July 1875, in Chişinău – 8 December 1927) was a Bessarabian politician and historian, he wrote prose and publicist materials, he was the honorary member (1919) of the Romanian Academy, he was the president of the National Moldavian Party. ''"Very cultured man, he owned a vast library and he knew the history of Bessarabia in detail" ''.Predescu. Career Paul Gore graduated from the high school in Mykolaiv, the Kherson region (1895), and then the Law School of the Saint Petersburg's University (1901). In 1905 he became a peace judge in Orgeyevsky Uyezd and in the same year he became the chairman of the editorial board of the Moldovan Society. In 1909 he became the sanitary director and director of the National Museum of Chișinău, where he have worked by 1918. In 1910 he was the elected MP from the nobility side and the vice-president of the Gubernian's Zemstvoe (zemstvo = form of local self-government). And being at this posture, in 1912, Paul Gore have aske ...
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Vasile Stroescu
Vasile Vasilievici Stroescu (, ''Vasily Vasilyevich Stroesko''; November 11, 1845 – April 13, 1926), also known as Vasile de Stroesco,"Vasile de Stroesco" and ""Scrisoarea dlui V. de Stroesco, in ''Unirea'', Issue 14/1910, pp. 1–2Bucin, p. 13 Ion Preasca in ''Adevărul Moldova'', November 30, 2013 Basile Stroesco,"Communiqués", in ''Le Figaro'', September 2, 1918, p. 2 or Vasile Stroiescu, was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician, landowner, and philanthropist. One of the proponents and sponsors of Romanian nationalism in Russia's Bessarabia Governorate, as well as among the Romanian communities of Austria-Hungary, he was also a champion of self-help and of cooperative farming. He inherited or purchased large estates, progressively dividing them among local peasants, while setting up local schools and churches for their use. An erudite and traveler, he abandoned his career in law to focus on his agricultural projects and cultural activism. For the latter work, he became an ho ...
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Vladimir Cristi
Vladimir Cristi (1880–1956) was a Romanian publicist and politician who served as State Minister in the Nicolae Iorga government between 16 January and 6 June 1932. Cristi was Mayor of Chișinău between 1938 and 1940. Biography Born and raised in a noble family, Vladimir Cristi was a man who showed interest in politics and state affairs. As a descendant of a boyar family in Moldova, Vladimir Cristi was the nephew of Ioan Cristi, a renowned Bessarabian noble, and the son of Grigorie Cristi, who held a high position in the Russian gubernia, serving as the governor of the Oriol gubernia. Vladimir pursued his studies and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Moscow and the Faculty of Agronomy at a university in Paris. In 1917, he served as the gubernial commissar of Bessarabia. He was a deputy in the "Sfatul Țării" (Council of the Country), Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of the Moldovan Democratic Republic, a deputy in the Parliament of Rom ...
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Onișcani
Onișcani is a commune in Călărași District, Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. .... It is composed of three villages: Hîrbovăț, Onișcani and Sverida. At the 2014 census, the population was 1,799. In 2004, it was divided as follows: 1,334 in Onișcani, 792 in Hîrbovăț and 84 in Sverida. References Communes of Călărași District {{CălăraşiMD-geo-stub ...
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February Revolution
The February Revolution (), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup was the first of Russian Revolution, two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style and New Style dates, Old Style (8 March Old Style and New Style dates, New Style). Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and Special Corps of Gendarmes, gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.), most of the forces of the capital's garrison sided with the revolutionaries. In the same day, the Russian Provisional Government, made up by left-leaning State Duma (Russ ...
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Deleni, Iași
Deleni is a commune in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to .... It is composed of six villages: Deleni, Feredeni, Leahu-Nacu, Maxut, Poiana and Slobozia. Natives * Theodor Speranția References Communes in Iași County Localities in Western Moldavia {{Iaşi-geo-stub ...
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Dudești, Bucharest
Dudești () is a neighbourhood in Sector 3 (Bucharest), Sector 3 of Bucharest. It is located in the south-eastern part of the city, along ''Calea Dudești''. Nearby neighbourhoods include Vitan, Bucharest, Vitan, Văcărești, Bucharest, Văcărești, and Dristor. The Neolithic Dudești culture (5th millennium BC, 5th–4th millennium BC), which encompassed most of the Wallachian Plain and Dobruja, gets its name from this region of Bucharest, as this was the first place where its archeological remains were found. Originally a village, it was included in Bucharest as it expanded. Its name is related to the Wallachian aristocratic family of the Dudești, with an etymology leading back to the Romanian ''dud'', "mulberry tree" and the suffix ''-ești''. During the first reign of Alexander Mourouzis as List of rulers of Wallachia, Prince of Wallachia, in the context of a bubonic plague outbreak, it became the site of a quarantined hospital for the afflicted. Unlike other nearby area ...
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Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Bucharest metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which makes Bucharest the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 8th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 6 districts (''Sectors of Bucharest, Sectoare''), while the metropolitan area covers . Bucharest is a major cultural, political and economic hub, the country's seat of government, and the capital of the Muntenia region. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (mostly History of architecture#Revivalism and Eclecticism, Eclectic, but also Neoclassical arc ...
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