Constantin Stere (1865 – 1936)
Politician, jurist, professor, scholar, and Romanian writer. In his youth, for his involvement in the narodnik revolutionary movement, he was sentenced by the Tsarist Russian authorities to prison and exile in Siberia for 6 years (1886-1892). For 30 years, he carried out remarkable journalistic activity, being the founder and editor of the magazine “Viața românească,” first published on March 1, 1906. He was elected the second president of the Sfatul Țării (April 2 – November 25, 1918), playing a crucial role in the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.The end of Constantin Stere’s life was spent in seclusion and isolation from political turmoil in Bucov, Prahova County. The meaning of Constantin Stere’s withdrawal to the manor in Bucov is a complete renunciation of the political environment of the bourgeois-landowner regime from which he could no longer expect anything. He passed away on June 26, 1936, in Bucov. In 2010, he was posthumously elected as a member of the Romanian Academy. A street in Chișinău is named after him.