107 years since the Union of Bessarabia with Romania

The National Museum of the village Dimitrie Gusti invites you today, 107 years after the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, to a unique exhibition that we present online and which includes images from the museum archive with the monuments transferred from the field 89 years ago, documents belonging to the national archives and photographs with a series of barks in the museum.

"MS King - Iasi,

In the name of the country's advice, which represents the Romanian people from Bessarabia descended by the secular yoke, I bring your Majesty the expressions of the unwavering faith of the whole Romanian people in Eastern Romania, who in union with the country-mum see the chezion of its free development, the non-social path to the national culture and the national culture.

Of your Majesty too much servant,

Ioan Inculeț,

The President of the Council of the Country of Bessarabia ”

On March 27, 1918, the Council of the Country proclaimed with a majority of votes with Romania, given that some minority groups were insistently kept in keeping with Russia. Ioan Inculeț, the president of the Council of the Country of Bessarabia, will sign the resolution of the Union with Romania, adopted with 86 votes for, 3 against and 36 abstentions, in the presence of the Romanian Prime Minister Alexandru Marghiloman.

"Bessarabia was snatched from the body of Moldova by force, with the breaking of any right and of any justice, in 1812. The promised autonomy, with the preservation of the Romanian language in all the governors, was rather withdrawn. Bessarabia being slowly transformed into a simple Russia. The resistance of this wonderful Moldovan people between Prut and Nistru to preserve the language lasted, for the preservation of the national being. Ioan Inculeț, who now assists helplessly at the enclosure of Bessarabia, part of Bukovina and Herţa County in the Soviet Union.

The municipality of Bucharest has decided that in some households in the Village Museum, families of Bucovina and Bessarabian refugees will be hosted and because no other solutions were found, they remained in the museum until 1948.

The connection between the Village Museum (through Dimitrie Gusti and the monographs teams) and Bessarabia had started a decade ago.

In 1931, 55 sociologists, ethnographers, anthropologists, philosophers and economists led by Professor Dimitrie Gusti, came from Bucharest to research the Romanian village in Bessarabia. Of several dozen localities on the left of Prut, Cornova, Orhei county chose. As long as Dimitrie Gusti was missing, the research was led by HH Stahl.

"There, Mr. Professor, I take her here alone, but quite well. And if I happen to scratch, like last week, a leg, then enrich the file of the magic with sheets, because I heal with earth from the plum root, boiled with flax and I walk to all the village.

With the villagers I reconcile me exceptionally. Knights Cl. I., from all over the region I don't even make a ball without me. I am gained and I am forced to dance demonstratively, "as in Bucharest", (...) in boots, with more barefoot. You know that now in the village there is a monographic fashion: with the shirt, with the sleeves and the cut cozoroc, that is, with the basket -shaped cap. It is a costume worn by the Protipendada of the Knights.

The vineyards have not yet started. But people are preparing from now on small ballercutes, to pick up. In the village, a generalized, frightening drunkenness. At night the whole village screams: monographic songs. They are made by penite, east, torso pens, in which I participate. Then the lads are cut into knives and I am mourning. I give them in iodine and make records on morality. The village is therefore quite different now in autumn. Sad, but interesting. ”, The letter of HH Stahl to Dimitrie Gusti, September 1931.

The results of this research were remarkable and materialized by bringing in 1936 in the Village Museum of 3 households and 4 mills. The households were brought from Stoicani (Soroca), Ignăţei (Orhei) and Olăneşti (White Fortress).

Today, 107 years after the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, we present you in a unique exhibition images from the Archive of the National Museum of Dimitrie Gusti with the monuments transferred to the museum 89 years ago, documents belonging to the national archives and photographs with a series of barks in the museum collection.