The Armenian Church

During the Midlle Ages the economic activity in Roman was tightly linked to the existence of a numerous Armenian community, which brought an important contribution to the stimulation of trade and craftsmanship production or to the facilitation of financial operations.In that direction, Nicolae Iorga inferred that, in 1609, in Roman used to live more than 500 Armenian families, not a negligible number if we consider the proportions of the borough and the number if its inhabitants at that begining of the XVII.th century.

Naturally, the Armenian community of Roman made efforts to procure an appropriate cult dwelling, concern that might have been manifested even since the XVI.th century, if we give credit to the tradition by means of which it is mentioned the information regarding the purchase of a small wooden church in 1355, from the Saxons of Transylvania. But, either this got destroyed or did not correspond with the requirements of a continuously developing community, it was necessary to build a spacious stone church, that was achieved in 1609, as it results from the original inscription, translated by the Bishop Melchisedec Ştefănescu:

„By God’s grace, generosity and will and by the choise of the almighty God and into the glory of the Born from He, in these harsh times, God chose one good man called Lord Agopşa, who built this temple in the name of the Mother of God, unto the mentioning of his name and his wife’s name, Lady Mughala and his parents Lord Vastanu and Dolvath and his sons, Lord Vastanu, Saco…and of Lord Donigu and of his Daughters Meluşa and Dolvath, on the year 1058(according to the Armenian calendar),September(1069). Father Khaciaduru.”

Another inscription on the Northern wall informs us that the actual edifice is the result of some more recent works, performed during 1863-1868, under the supervision of the Bavarian architect, Johan Brandel of Daggendorf. At that time the church was enlarged and renewed, in accordance with a neoclassical project, disbursed by Donica Simionovici – owner of the Simioneşti manor(Cordun) – and by Teodor Solomon, which had a manor in Butnăreşti-Roman. During these works the height of the church was increased, the church verandah with the bell tower was built and were added the teggerey room and the room of the Saint Gifts, making it look more like the Armenian church of Iaşi, which had been restored in 1803.

As it looks in the present, the Armenian Church of Roman is a monumental edifice that strikes by the unprecedented aspect of the facades and authoritatively dominates the surrounding area. It has a cross-shaped plan, with lateral apses of a rectangular shape and a semicircular altar apse, a massive pedestral made of carved stone and an exterior surface fitted with bricks lied horizontally. The stone resettes that decorate the lateral apses, the frameworks of the 19 windows and the cornice profiled with oblong dentils increase the construction’s beauty and the two spires(from the nave and from the church verandah), with their friezes sculpted in stone, provide elegance and slenderness to the entire edifice.

Also, the interior is decorated with stone profiles and sculptures which, trought their motives inspired by Armenian, Persian or Arabian influences, remind of the oriental and the sensation of monumentally is consolidated by the amplitude of the vaults, supported by the same slanted arches, characteristic for the Moldavian churches.

The painting of the iconostasis and of the icons on the nave and the ante-temple reflects the influence of Armenian art and – most likely – was realized during the works from 1863-1868, together with Pantocrator and The Four Evanghelists from the base of the main spire.

Because there were only a few Armenian families left in Roman, and the abandoned church started to decay, the Episcopate obtained, in March 1981 from the Armenian Archiepiscopate of Bucharest, the cession of the edifice…for temporary use during an unlimited period. On the basis of this agreement there were performed extensive works of restoration, consolidation and arrangement, the iconostasis was brought forwardly and the space necessary for the altar was provided, by adjusting the church to the requirements of the Orthodox cult. Thus, subsequently to the scarification from the 15.th of August 1991, the dwelling became a parochial church included in the eparchy of the Episcopate of Roman.

Liviu G

Roman I

Roman I was Voivode of Moldavia from December 1391 to March 1394. He was the second son of Costea Muşat, brother of Petru I and the first ruler from the Muşatin family.
During his reign, Moldova incorporated all the territories between the Carpathians and Dniester, Roman I becoming the first Moldavian ruler to call himself "voivode from the mountains to the da-kmshore". The important fortress of Belgorod also came under Moldavian rule during this period.
Like the previous Moldavian rulers, he paid homage to the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło. However, in 1393 he supported Fyodor Koriatovych, the prince of Podolia, in the war against Władysław II and Lithuanian grand duke Vytautas. After their defeat at Braclaw, Roman was forced to give up the throne in favour of his son, Stephen I.
He was married to Anastasia, the woman who gave birth to Alexandru Cel Bun.
Currently,there is a statue of Roman in Roman,the town considered to be named in his honour.Roman I built the first church and fortifications in the town of Roman. He was interred in the princely church of Rădăuţi.

Andreea C (dizzy)

Precista Mare Church

An important monument, located close to the Episcopal Unit, it is the church „Precista Mare”. It belongs to the category of the large voivodal buildings, being the fruit of the piety and the effort of Lady Ruxandra, the widow of Alexandru Lapuşneanu, which built this place of prayer in the years 1569, on the place of another oldest. The building work developed in the first part of short reigns of Bogdan Lapuşneanu (1568 - 1572) and anybody forever supposed which odyssey had to traverse this church in the agitated confrontation of the centuries. Ruined by times and the cruel and unhappy events of the life of the borough, the foundation of Lapuşneanu was remade in 1753 by the Ioanichie bishop using the voivode Constantin Racoviţǎ, which occuped twice the throne of Moldova (1749-1753 and 1756-1757) and which, while stopping in Roman in 1756, gave to the church 1275 lei. It este supposable that the Ioanichie bishop rebuilt the church on the old bases, with dimensions and in the style of that originating, but, unfortunately, of this „alternative” of the church was preserved only of the turn-bell-tower at a height of 28 metres and the entry arched at the floor. We can say that the church represents a symbol of the city, with old roots in the history of the place.

Florentina

The Episcopal orthodox cathedral the novel

Location-Roman,Alexandru cel Bun street, nr 5
Hramul Cuvioasa Parascheva( 14 October.)

Petru Rares foundation from 1542-1550 on the place of a old churches from Petru Musat time. The monumental ensemble the maul contains: A chapel, buildings for desks and chilii, the Episcopal Palace builded in 1870 and the steeple . This has a very long history, be builded in two-stage in century. of XVIII-lea and of XIX-lea, has five niveles, and the bells are very old,three of them be donate. The tower shelters too one of the most rich documentation libraries( 20000 of volumes). In the course of time ,settlement, historic monument and of religious constituted, has builded an important center of the culture and the Roumanian education.

Oana C

Otilia Cazimir

Otilia Cazimir is a pseudonym for Alexandra Gavrilescu, given by Mihail Sadoveanu and the literary critic Garabet Ibraileanu. She was born is Cotu Vameş a village near Roman in February 12 1894 and she died in 8 June 1967.
She was the fifth child of the teacher George Gavrilescu. She spent her childhood in the village and then she left to Iaşi where she went to high school and university. She remained there for the rest of her life.
She debuted in 1912 in the “Romanian life“ magazine, where she published most of her work. There she met George Topârceanu and among them was a close friend about a true love story.
She loved the children so she started to make literary works for them, like „Toys”, „Night butterflies”. She also wrote autobiographical work, like „Me friend, writers” „ Garden with memories”, “Luchi died”.
For rich literary activity has received numerous awards and distinctions: the Romanian Academy Award (1927), Femina Prize (1928), National Prize for Literature (1937), the Order of Labor (1954).

Miruna B

The blue Waterfall

The blue Waterfall is situated in the centre of roman, nearby the hotel.The construction is very expensive. To do it, the City Hall has used lots of money. In the night, the building id iluminating with blue lights. Sometimes, you can hear classic music in the background.This building gives a nice image to the city, because it is near the enterance of Roman.You can go there for relaxing in the evening, or just to have a good time in the center of the city.

Diana S

Gheorghe Flondor

Gheorghe Flondor (August 31, 1892 – April 26, 1976, Bucharest) was Romanian politician who served as Royal Resident (Rezident Regal) of Ţinutul Suceava from February 7, 1939 to September 23, 1940.

Flondor was born in Roman to Tudor and Maria Flondor; his uncle was Iancu Flondor. In 1910 he graduated from State High School nr. 3 in Cernăuţi, part of Austria-Hungary at the time. That year he began courses at the University of Vienna's Law Faculty, where he studied for three years and took part of his licentiate. He underwent his last year of studies at Charles University in Prague.

In 1923, he entered politics, joining the National Liberal Party at the suggestion of Ion Nistor, a bitter political and open personal enemy of Flondor's uncle, Iancu. He was elected deputy for Rădăuţi in the Parliament of Romania (1927–1935) and then senator for Rădăuţi (1935–1937).
In 1927, he married Lucia Stephanovici (later known under the pen name of Lotte Berg as a translator and author of children's books). They had a son, Tudorel (b. 1929), a scientist and national chess champion for 1951.
Flondor was also president of Siret Bank and of the General Trade Union for Animal Export. In the latter capacity, he travelled, with a view toward cracking new markets, to Austria, Germany, Egypt and Palestine. For two successive terms, he was also president of the Rădăuţi Agricultural Chamber and director of the Cernăuţi Northern Bank.

Liviu G

Virgil Petrovici

The engineer and the professor Victor Petrovici was born at 20 th of
January 1935.He was a specialist in technical and arts lights .He participeted
at over 1500Tv shows.he was a student at “the National College Roman Voda”.
He studied engineer in Bucharest and London.
He initialized the first shows with lights and sounds, some of them are the faimous
”THE GOLDEN BUCK”, “GEORGE ENESCU”, “MAMAIA”.
He made a lot of theatre shows,credit titles at over 80 films.
Virgil Petrovici was faimous abroad,also-he received a lot of national and international
awards.He was called “ Honour Citizen” in his native town, Roman.
This memorable person lived 68 years.
The genious let his follower 10 books about this field of activity.

Ana Maria C

Calistrat Hogas

Calistrat Hogas

Biography

He was born in Tecuci, family priest George Dimitriu. He was enrolled in public school under of his teacher initiative. During 1860-1869, he attended the Academy Mihaileana the generation of AD Xenopol Al. Lambrior, Vasile Conta, Gheorghe Panu and others who linked lasting friends. After graduating from high school joined the Faculty of Philosophy and letters of Iasi, "literary apart. In the year that the Academy has done, after a competition, he was appointed professor of the Literary "on municipal gymnasium in Piatra Neamt, and the very short time - director.

Married on 17 January 1871 with her daughter priest Costache Gheorghiu in Piatra Neamt, very young Elena, the writer is with the nickname "Elencu.

A conflict with the proportion of local ownership Gymnasium led him to move in 1878 for two years, the gymnasium of Tecuci and one year in normal school "Vasile Lupu" in Iasi. He returned in 1881 as director and professor at Piatra Neamt, and became a close "friend" of IL Caragiale, in October 1881 - March 1882 in the county of Neamt, the school inspector. Another conflict with local authorities in 1886, involving connotations and personal life, urged him to transfer, as professor and director at the Gymnasium of Alexandria, refusing the offer to live in Bucharest.

On 31 January 1882 was born the seventh child, a girl named Sidonia. While there and the eighth child born writer in the family - Marioara, who died early, Sidonia, remaining cadet, he accompanied his father, along with her mother in the deployment of Alexandria (Teleorman).

Professor C. Hogaş was close to home, up to the Roman in 1891, where he moved and Sidonia. In 1899, the entire family, except Aetiu son, who studied in Bucharest, moved to Iaşi.

Professor C. Hogaş out retirement, but continued to teach up to 40 hours per week. 1915: The writer moved to Piatra Neamt already lived where his wife and daughter, Cecilia.

28 August 1917: Calistrat Hogas dies of Roman life in the middle nepoţilor on that big dăruise daughter, Cleopatra Silberg. When the expiration of 42 days on October 8, is reînhumat to Piatra Neamt.

Debut

He debuted in 1874 with the poem "Legend lăcrămioarei" in no. 5 Correspondence of local provincial newspaper. On July 3 1882, C. Hogaş began prose writer in the local magazine Asachi, with excerpts from the cycle Memories of a trip.

Literary Activity

In 1907, Knowing the Garabet Ibraileanu, Calistrat Hogas persuaded to leave and began working at Life magazine Romania from no. 2 ( "Floricica). In 1912, the Romanian Life Publishing began printing the first edition of volume on mountain roads Calistrat Hogas. Tentativa not completed due to numerous typographical errors that have passed unnoticed corectorului: Calistrat Hogas itself.

In 1914 was printed a second edition of the book on mountain roads at the same imprint. The stock of books, ready for shipment, is scrum during a fire which mistuie printing. In 1921 came the first edition of the book to the public on mountain roads in two volumes, the second, In Neamţului Mountains, was prefaced by Mihail Sadoveanu.
In 1922, his Calistrat Hogas, which in 1915 he was refused the Academy Award for 5000 lei, "Adamache, is posthumously confer the first award initiated by Romanian Writers' Society, in thereport made by Liviu Rebreanu.

Alin

The Precista church

The Precista Church,near to Episcopia Church,was built by the lady Ruxandra Lapusneanu and her son,Bogdan al V-lea in 1969.The church was many times retored : in 1753 by the Ionichie Bishop during Constantin Racovita ruler, in 1784 by Gherasim Putneanul egumen, in 1944 si 1977 as a result of strong earthquarke.
Precista has got fourty funeral icons since 1793 and that is one af the precious things of her.They have a foundation which gives poor people clouthes,food and afection.I like very much to be involved in charity actions, to help my kinds so,i think that everyone should go there and not only to admire her beauty and to hear the preach,also to give a hand to the needy people who don`t have what to eat or what to wear and they,certenly,will feel better.

Andra Z

Garabet Ibraileanu

Garabet Ibrăileanu (n. 23 mai 1871, Târgu Frumos - d. 12 martie 1936, Bucureşti), este un critic şi istoric literar, eseist, pedagog, redactor literar, romancier român. Este una dintre cele mai mari personalităţi dinliteratura română, un teoretician, promotor al criticii literare ştiinţifice, creator literar, profesor de istoria literaturii române la Universitatea din Iaşi şi principal redactor al revistei Viaţa românească între anii 1906 şi 1930. Sub pseudonimul Cezar Vraja, pe care avea să-l folosească, cu intermitenţe, toată viaţa, Garabet Ibrăileanu debutează în paginile revistei Şcoala nouă cu articole, după 1871
care publică versuri, poeme în proză, cugetări, traduceri etc.
1871 - La 23 mai s-a născut, la Târgu Frumos, Garabet Ibrăileanu. Tatãl, armean de origine, se numea Teodor Ibrăileanu; mama, Maria Marcovici, era fiica lui Andronie şi a Varteniei Marcovici din Roman.
1872 - Părinţii, împreunã cu copilul se mutã la Roman, în casa Varteniei Marcovici.
Între 1890 şi 1895, Garabet Ibrăileanu frecventează la Universitatea din Iaşi cursurile Facultăţii de Filosofie, istorie şi literatură, concomitent urmează şcoala normală superioară. În timpul studiilor universitare, Garabet Ibrăileanu colaborează la diverse ziare şi reviste (Munca, Evenimentul literar, Lumea nouă etc.), cu articole având conţinut politic-social şi de orientare literară.
În 1908 a ocupat catedra de literatură modernă de la Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iaşi, pe care a servit-o până în 1934. Profesorul Ibrăileanu a reluat strălucita tradiţie a societăţii Junimea şi a revistei Convorbiri literare prin reunirea în jurul revistei Viaţa românească a scriitorilor cei mai însemnaţi ai epocii şi prin orientarea mişcării literare a vremii în direcţia creaţiei de caracter specific, legată de realităţile naţionale contemporane. Spiritul democratic al lui Garabet Ibrăileanu a ferit poporanismul, în cei 10 ani de existenţă, din prima serie a revisteiViaţa românească, de excese ca şi de exclusivism, permiţând scriitorilor importanţi ai epocii, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ion Agârbiceanu, Gala Galaction, Octavian Goga, Tudor Arghezi etc. să-şi dezvolte liber activitatea.
1936 În noaptea de 10 spre 11 martie, Ibrãileanu a pãrãsit lumea celor vii, la 12 martie corpul profesorului a fost incinerat si timp de un sfert de orã i s-a cantat andantele din Simfonia Nr.6 "Pastorala" de Ludwig van Beethoven.

Andra C

Viorica Agarici

Viorica Agarici (1886-1979) was a Romanian nurse, the chairwoman of the local Red Cross in the city of Roman during World War II and the Ion Antonescu regime. A protector of the Jewish population during the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, she is one of only 52 Romanians among the Righteous Among the Nations commemorated by the Israeli people at Yad Vashem.
Viorica Agarici was the daughter of a former mayor of Roman, himself noted for intervening on behalf of the Jews, and who helped establish the local synagogue and modern school. She was the mother of Horia Agarici, a celebrated Royal Romanian Air Force pilot.
On the night of July 2, 1941, after caring for the Romanian Army wounded coming from the Eastern Front, she overheard people moaning from a train transporting Jewish survivors of the Iaşi pogrom . The crowded deportees were being transported to Călăraşi without water or food. Many of them had died before reaching Roman, on the trip from Iaşi (which normally took two hours). The transport they were on, supervised by the Gendarmerie, has been described as a "death train".The Gendarmes, instigated by Second Lieutenant Aurel Triandaf and thenon-commissioned officer Anastase Bratu, prevented passengers access to water and shot several of those who attempted to procure it. In parallel, various local people and soldiers made attempts to sell the victims water at exorbitant prices, while troops, both local and German, attacked the prisoners with stones.
Taking advantage of her position, she asked and received permission to give food and water to the passengers, to allow them to wash, and to remove of the dead bodies. This first aid operation was accomplished with assistance from Romanian Red Cross and local Jewish volunteers, and effectively stalled the transport a full day. According to one account, Agarici actually ordered the authorities to obey a Colonel Eraclide possibly complied due to the respect he may have had for the war hero Horia Agarici. On July 4, all Jewish prisoners were moved to another train, where they received some food and water (despite the improved conditions, 75 died during the subsequent trip and 69 shortly after).Of 2,530 people forcefully embarked in Iaşi, only 1,011 were still alive in Călăraşi. It is possible that the original number was much higher, and that losses were under-counted by officials, who did not keep evidence of all the bodies thrown out of the train. Agarici's actions were strongly condemned by the community of Roman, and she subsequently had to resign and move to Bucharest. Reportedly, she was instantly seen as a hero by a sizable part of the Jewish community, and rumors about her actions spread throughout the country. In 1947, three years after the King Michael Coup toppled Antonescu, Aurel Triandaf was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for war crimes and crimes against peace. Alongside her Yad Vashem recognition, Agarici was the recipient of several local tributes: Roman train station houses her bust and a memorial plate, and, in summer 2005, her memory was honored through a ceremony hosted by local authorities and representatives of the Jewish community. She was also publicly praised by Rabbi Alexandru Şafran, the Jewish community leader during World War II, who cited her among the "humane people in inhumane times" .

Vlad

The christian-catholic church from Adjudeni

The biggest christian-catholic church from the Moldova area in Romania is in the village called Adjudeni. It was built in 1975(nineteen seventy five). Reverend then, Adamut Dumitru, made great sacrifices for this construction, he even sacrificed his life for that. Nowadays, it is finished with two big towers and very beautifull paintings. Villagers are very proud of their church because they took part at creating this great monument.

Claudia

Sergiu Celibidache

Sergiu Celibidache is considered as one of the most valuable of all time conductors and refined a specialist of French impressionist music. The first piano lessons take in Iasi and then in Bucharest. He studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest and at the age of 23 years left to study composition at the Music Academy in Berlin (Hochschule fur Musik). Two years later enroll dirijoratul study with Walter Gmeindl that then became a graduate of Friedrich Wilhelm University. Obtaining his PhD in music in Berlin and in 1945, after finishing their studies, became conductor of the prestigious Orchester Berlin Philharmonic until 1952 when Wilhelm Furtwangler is in charge of rehabilitation and returned to the Nazi leadership of the orchestra. During this period he directed more than 400 concerts, imposing in the world thanks to musical professionalism, originality and its rigorous reflections. Leaving in 1954 in Germany to drive famous symphonic orchestras, all over the world: France, Italy, Sweden, USSR, Israel, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, England, Romania. Between 1962 and 1972 directs the Radio Orchestra in Stockholm, between 1972 and 1977 in Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, and from 1979 until the end of his life, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.He led for 2 years in Paris National Orchestra (1973 -1975), and occasional radio orchestras in Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Copenhagen Royal Orchestra, Orchestra scale Orchestra of Milan and La Fenice Theater in Venice. Celibidache was appreciated very much both the unique style of driving, and his way of teaching art dirijoratului. In the professional maturity, became famous for his vision of driving, being a passionate teacher. Said the enthusiastic students learn in an hour observandu him conductor, but in weeks of study. Celibidache declined steadily in making records, not to vulgarize music albums are made only in the last years of his life, his opinion is that the total experience of a concert of music and magic can not be caught on tape, just in the hall Concert. Among own compositions include a Requiem, a concert piano and orchestra and four symphonies.

Alex C

FILIP BRUNEA-FOX and ZICMAN FEIDER

FILIP BRUNEA-FOX (FILIP BRAUNER - b. Roman, 1898 - d. Bucharest, 1977)
He attended the primary school in Roman. Named, on merits, the "King of feature reports", he is considered "the first reporter of the legionary pogrom in Bucharest - 1941". "A reporter's eye is like the eye of a fly: a multiple eye" - he used to say. Volumes: "Cinci zile printre leprosi", "Orasul macelului" - subtitled "Jurnalul rebeliunilor si crimelor legionare" (1944); "Reportajele mele" (1928-1938) etc. On many occasions, the photographer I. Berman used to accompany, in his travels, this "hyperbolic reporter, having the world in his pockets" (St. Baciu).
"Brunea installed himself in journalism, with all his luggage as a vanguard poet, throwing in his reports pictures unused in those eminently non-literary texts…" (Al. Mirodan).
"… The Romanian press knight, without hooded cape and without the sword" (Stefan Roll).
"… On the reckoning day, we will see how much of the modern character of the press is due to Brunea-Fox" (Geo Bogza).

ZICMAN FEIDER (b. 1903, Roman - d. 1979, Iasi)
He was lecturer at the Department for the Zoology of vertebrates and then university professor in Iasi. "The promoter of the terrestrial accarology and builder of a valuable international school, he realizes the taxonomic and systematic study of many groups…" of fauna (Dr. Prof. Andy Z. Lehrer). The crowning of his work are his three volumes (monographs) in the "Fauna" Collection of the Romanian Academy; "Curs de zoologia vertebratelor" etc.

Carmen