Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Sym
1878 photograph of Macedonski
First page of Excelsior, 1895
First page of Cartea de aur, 1902
Sămănătorul or Semănătorul was a literary and political magazine published in Romania between 1901 and 1910. Founded by poets Alexandru Vlahuță and George Coșbuc, it is primarily remembered as a tribu
Sămănătorul issue, cover dated October 6, 1907
Ludovic Bassarab's La treierat ("Threshing"), showing peasants in Romanian dress around a combine harvester
Front page of Sămănătorul under Aurel Popovici's direction, December 1909 issue
A peasant household near Bistriţa Monastery, ca. 1906