Great Romanian poet paid homage at 174th birthday anniversary

Chisinau, 15 January /MOLDPRES/ - National poet Mihai Eminescu  was paid homage at the 174th birthday anniversary in Chisinau today. The event is part of a string of actions organized on the National Culture Day, marked in Moldova on this today.   

Today morning, representatives of the central and local public administration, writers, culture people, admirers of Eminescu’s works assembled at the poet’s bust on the Alley of Classics of the Romanian Literature from the Stefan cel Mare Public Garden.    

A literary and artistic event, as well as a moment of evoking the poet’s personality, held by culture and art people, took place also here. In his speech, the deputy president of the Moldovan Writers’ Union, Ivan Pilchin, said the National Culture Day was identified with the birthday of the national poet Mihai Eminescu.  

On the occasion of the National Culture Day, marked in Moldova today, Culture Minister Sergiu Prodan conveyed a message to all those who are on guard of the culture in the country’s villages and cities, as well as those who promote Moldova’s values abroad. Prodan thanked the culture sector employees for the work, passion and self-denial they proved, often on the brink of sacrifice. The minister thanked also the audience, without whom the artistic act could not take place, urging them to value the culture and the people who create them. ‘’This is asset which we can bear in our thought and soul; it is the wealth which we can convey to the next generations and which nobody can take away from us,’’ the culture minister said.        

Also today at the Organ Hall at 19:00, the Mihai Eminescu National Cultural Institute in Chisinau, in cooperation with Romania’s Embassy in Moldova and with the support of the TVR Moldova TV station, organizes a chamber concert with the participation of musicians Andrei Ionita (cello) and Alexandra Tirsu (violin), along with piano player Marcel Lazar.  

Mihai Eminescu, regarded by the posthumous literary critique as the most important poet of the Romanian literature, was born in Botosani, Romania, on 15 January 1850. Eminescu died in Bucharest on 15 June 1889 and was buried at the Bellu Cemetery from Bucharest. On 28 October 1948, Mihai Eminescu was posthumously elected as member of the Romanian Academy.

The National Culture Day was established under a parliament decision from 2012, and is aimed at promoting the national culture, authentic cultural values, as well as the outstanding personalities from the culture sector.