Gheorghe Madan – Agent of the Russian Empire. “Personal agent” of the Besserabian governor. The Sergiu Cujbă case
This study reflects, based on National Archives of Moldova documents, some aspects of the activity of Gheorghe Madan who, upon his return to Bessarabia from Romania, in 1906, initially manifested himself as “personal agent” of Bessarabia’s Governor and later, from September 1909 – as agent of the Police Department within the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Empire. Gh. Madan was involved, through the denunciations he made to the authorities, in the expulsion from Chişinău of Sergiu Cujbă, editor of the newspaper Basarabia; in the anti-Stere campaign of the conservative press of Romania; in the analysis of the assimilation processes in Bessarabia and of the increase in Romania’s influence in the region etc. After advocating for a while the national rights of Bessarabian Romanians, Gh. Madan unexpectedly passes to the camp of those supporting the russification of Moldovans, thus contributing to the strengthening of the “colossus with clay feet” and to the undermining of the interests of his own nation.
Keywords: Gheorghe Madan, National Archives of Moldova, Russian Empire, Bessarabia
1 Arhiva Naţională a Republicii Moldova (ANRM), fond
297, inv. 1, dosar 107, fila 2.
2 Din începuturile culturii basarabene. Convorbire cu un fruntaş
basarabean din Iaşi, în Adevărul, anul al XVIII-lea, nr. 6231,
24 decembrie 1906
3 Ibidem.
4 Ibidem.
5 Ibidem.
6 Ibidem.
7 Arhiva de Stat a Federaţiei Ruse (ASFR), DP, Secţia
specială, fond 102, 1906, inv. 235, fasc. 1, dosar 936, fila 15;
documentul citat cât şi o serie de alte documente, analizate
mai jos, au fost publicate şi în lucrarea subsemnatului
Ţarismul şi mişcarea naţională a românilor din Basarabia,
Chişinău, 2000, p.119-193.
8 ANRM, fond 297, inv. 1, dosar 98, fila 182 verso.
9 Moldovanul, anul I, nr. 1, 14 ianuarie 1907.
10 ANRM, fond 691, inv. 2, dosar 261, fila 6-6 verso.
11 Ibidem, fila 1.
12 Ibidem, fila 2, 5.
13 Ibidem, fila 4, 7-8 verso.
14 Ibidem, fila 10-11.
15 Ibidem, fila 12.
16 Ibidem, fila 13.
17 Ibidem, fila 14-14 verso.
18 Ibidem, fila 16.
19 Ibidem, fila 18.
20 Ibidem, fila
21 Ibidem, fila 30-31.
22 Ibidem, fila 20.
23 Ibidem, fila 22- 22 verso.
24 Ibidem, fila 21.
25 În jurul unei calomnii. Scrisoarea dlui C. Stere, în Z. Ornea,
Viaţa lui C. Stere, vol.1, Bucureşti, 1989, p.494-499.
26 Ibidem.
27 Ibidem.
28 Ibidem.
29 ANRM, fond 691, inv. 2, dosar 261, fila 24.
30 Ibidem.
31 Petre Cazacu, Moldova dintre Prut şi Nistru, 1812-1918,
Chişinău, 1992, p. 218.
32 ANRM, fond 691, inv. 2, dosar 261, fila 25-25 verso.
33 Ibidem.
34 Ibidem, fila 23-23 verso.
35 Ibidem, fila 26.
36 ANRM, fond 297, inv. 1, dosar 98, fila 182 verso.
37 Ibidem, fila 130 verso- 131.
38 Ibidem, fila 179.
39 Ibidem, fila 180-180 verso; Negru, Gheorghe, Ţarismul
şi mişcarea naţională a românilor din Basarabia, Chişinău, 2000,
p. 64.
40 ANRM, fond 297, inv. 1, dosar 98, fila 181-182 verso.
41 Ibidem, fila 183-183 verso.
1. The National Archive of the Republic of Moldavia ,
fond 297, inv. 1, dosar 107, fila 2.
2. From the beginning of the Bessarabian culture. The
discussions with a Bessarabian frontman from Iaşi, in
Adevărul, anul al XVIII-lea, nr. 6231, 24 decembrie
1906.
3. Around a calomny. The letter of C. Stere, in Z. Ornea,
The life of C. Stere, vol. 1, Bucureşti, 1989.
4. Petre Cazacu, Moldavia between Prut and Nistru,
1812-1918, Chişinău, 1992,
5. Negru, Gheorghe, Tsarism and the national
movement of the Romanians in Bessarabia, Chişinău, 2000.
