Alexei Mateevici


Alexe Mateevici was one of the most prominent Romanian poets in Bessarabia.

Biography

He was born in the town Căinari, in Eastern Bessarabia, which was part of the Russian Empire, now in the Republic of Moldova, he grown in Zaim, Causeni . He studied at the theological school of Chișinău, and published his first poems, Eu cânt, Țara ) in the newspaper Basarabia, where he also published two articles on Moldavian folklore. Mateevici later published several articles on religion in Moldavia.
Mateevici went on to study at the Theological Academy of Kiev, from which he graduated in 1914. In that year he married Teodora Borisovna Novitski. He returned to Chişinău, and became a Greek language teacher at the theological school.

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