The mansion Zamfir Arbore-Ralli
Dolna, a village like many other picturesque villages in Moldova, has a good reason to be visited by guests - a former early 19th-century noble residence built by the wealthy Greek-born nobleman Zamfirache Ralli.
Ralli-Arbore was a noble family that settled in the Basarabian area during the 18th century. The nobleman's family used to spend their summer holidays in the Dolna mansion, where they organised various gatherings, bringing together people of culture, including the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who was in exile in Bessarabia for three years (1820-1823). It was during this time that Pushkin first met a gypsy family and met the beautiful Zemfira, the baron's daughter, with whom he fell in love and later created the poem "Țîganii". There is a clearing in the forest near the village, named after Zemfira, and in the park next to the manor house, in memory of A. Pushkin, there is a monument to the poet.
The building still preserves the interior and the atmosphere of the time, which during the USSR was used as a library, a music school and a village museum.
Nowadays, the mansion is a branch of the "A. S. Pushkin" museum in Chisinau.
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