Ion Buzdugan

Ion Buzdugan was a BessarabianRomanian poet, folklorist, and politician. A young schoolteacher in the Russian Empire by 1908, he wrote poetry and collected folklore emphasizing Bessarabias links with Romania, and associated with various founding figures of the Romanian nationalist movement, beginning with Ion Pelivan. Buzdugan was a communist during the February Revolution, but eventually rallied with the National Moldavian Party in opposition to the socialists and the Bolsheviks. He vehemently supported the union of Bessarabia with Romania during the existence of an independent Moldavian Democratic Republic, and, as a member of its legislature , worked to bring it about. Threatened by the Bolsheviks, he fled to Romania and returned with the expeditionary corps headed by General Ernest Broteanu, being one of the delegates who voted for the union, and one of dignitaries who signed its proclamation.

According to updated reference works, the future Ion Buzdugan was born in 1887 in Brnzenii Noi , the son of peasants Alexandru and Ecaterina Buzdga. One 1936 entry claims that he was born in 1889 in Buzdugeni. Both villages were at the time included in the Russian Empires Bessarabian Governorate, and the young man was educated at a teachers seminary in Bayramcha. He later studied agriculture, law and literature in Russian schools in KamianetsPodilskyi and Moscow. He took a license to practice law from Moscow University.

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