Emanoil Băleanu
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Emanoil Băleanu, was a Wallachian statesman, soldier and industrialist who served as Caimacam in October 1858–January 1859. Descending from an old family of boyars, he was one of two sons born to Ban
Grigore III Băleanu holding a copy of Regulamentul Organic and displaying the Order of Saint Anna; 1837 lithograph by Lecca
Reconstruction of the "Statue of Liberty" in an 1849 zincograph
Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea
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Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea, also known as Aleco Filipescul, Alecsandru R. Filipescu or Alexandru Răducanu Filipescu, was a Wallachian administrator and high-ranking boyar, who played an important part in
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…Country, whose territory was split between the more prosperous Prahova and Buzău. Also in 1844, the Assembly appointed him, together with Vilara and Alecu Filipescu-Vulpea, to oversee the charity known as Așezămintele Brâncovenești. This had been set up for Bibescu's estranged wife Zoe Brâncoveanu, whom the prince had…
Belvedere (or Golescu–Grant) Manor, as it looked in 2013
A boyar and a Russian officer on Dealul Mitropoliei, Bucharest, in 1832
Zoe Brâncoveanu, Gheorghe Bibescu's wife and founder of Așezămintele Brâncovenești (portrait by Theodor Aman)
Filipescu tomb in Mavrogheni Church