Medic, publicist, and politician, who was a member of the Council of the Country in Bessarabia. She was the aunt of the writer Magda Isanos.

She studied at the Eparchial School in Chisinau. Here, she met the young theologian Dumitru Alistar, whom she later married. After the death of her husband, at the urging of the publicist Mihai Vântu, she went to Romania, to Iași, where she attended the University’s Faculty of Medicine between 1909 and 1916. She was arrested for “nationalist activity” together with members of Daniel Ciugureanu’s group, as she supported the need to liberate Bessarabia by force from Russian rule. In 1916, she was mobilized in the army as a military doctor. After the war, she worked at the Costiujeni Hospital near Chisinau.

She is the only woman deputy (elected from the White Fortress county in the County Council) known today, who actively participated in the political events of that period. On March 27, 1918, she voted for the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.

In 1927, she founded the Romanian Women’s Group in Bessarabia. She was prominent in the work of the National Orthodox Society of Romanian Women, which operated under the patronage of Alexandrina Cantacuzino. After June 28, 1940, she took refuge in Romania. After living for a while in Iași, she was arrested by the communist regime and sent to Pucioasa, Dâmbovița county, where she died in 1955. Her remains were later disinterred and reburied at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest. In Chisinau, a high school in the Botanica sector bears her name.