It is a replica of the famous Roman statue (author Ettore Ferrari), which was donated by the municipality of Rome (Italy) in the first years after the union of Bessarabia and Bukovina with Romania (1921).
In 1940, for political reasons, the statue was melted down. In 1990, the “Cultural League for the Unity of Romanians Everywhere” made a copy of the statue, which was installed in front of the National Museum of History of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau.