Nicolae Crevedia
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Nicolae Crevedia was a Romanian journalist, poet and novelist, father of the writer-politician Eugen Barbu. Of Muntenian peasant roots, which shaped his commitment to agrarian and then far-right polit
Site of Petrache Lupu's reported miracles, in Maglavit
Tudor Arghezi
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Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer and political figure, widely considered one of his country's greatest poets. An illegitimate, part-Hungarian child who was purposely vague about his roots, he had a
Nicolae Crevedia
…his peasant background; in practice, however, he gave literary expression to the suburban environment (or mahala), and adored the modernist poetry of Tudor Arghezi. Turning to fascism, Crevedia sympathized with the Iron Guard, and, in the late 1930s, contributed to the press campaigns vilifying ideological enemies…
Arghezi in 1960
Arghezi's body being laid in state at the Romanian Atheneum
Alley of Classics bust