Alexandru Ioan Cuza
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza was the first domnitor of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as Prince of Moldavia on 5 January 1859 and Prince of Wallachia on 24 January 1859, which resulted
Photograph by Carol Szathmari, 1859
Hungarian newspaper Vasárnapi Ujság commented "with sympathy and respect" (Carol C. Koka) Cuza's double election in Moldavia and Wallachia
Alexandru Ioan Cuza official portrait
The Al.I. Cuza family residence in Ruginoasa
Alexandru Al. Ioan Cuza
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Alexandru Al. Ioan Cuza was a Romanian aristocrat and politician. He was the eldest of the sons adopted by Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza and his consort, Elena Rosetti-Cuza. Public opinion and historia
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
…Although he and his wife Elena Rosetti had no children, she raised as her own children his two sons by his mistress Elena Maria Catargiu-Obrenović: Alexandru Al. Ioan Cuza (1864–1890), and Dimitrie Cuza (1865–1888 suicide). Thus Cuza achieved a de facto union of the two principalities. The Powers backtracked, with Napoleon…
Alexandru Ioan Cuza in 1859, by C. I. Stăncescu
Elena Cuza in 1863, by Theodor Aman
Raid on of a wealthy farmer's home during the 1888 riots, as published in The Illustrated London News, May 5, 1888