Queen Marie Days to be held in Chisinau on 27-28 March

The Queen Marie Days will be held in Chisinau on March 27-28, on the occasion of the 107th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. The Monumentum Association invites society to the event for the unveiling of the statue of Queen Marie, one of the most important figures in Romania’s history, who played a decisive role in promoting the ideal of national unity.

According to the Monumentum Association, the solemn ceremony for unveiling the statue of Queen Marie will be attended by high-ranking guests from both banks of the Prut river, who have contributed and supported the construction of this important monument.

“Alongside the heroic deeds of the Romanian people, the struggles of brave rulers to defend the ancestral land, the story of Queen Marie - the Queen of the Great Union - stays fascinating. Her diary, testimony to her deep experiences, denotes the grandeur of a soul imbued with the destiny of the Romanian people.” (...) “The statue of Queen Marie, alongside the monument of ruler Stephen the Great and Holy, symbolizes our right to identity, to freedom, to our reborn, immortal and always victorious spirit,” said Iuliana Gorea Costin, ambassador, acting president of the Association of Development for Romania.

The monument of Queen Marie will be inaugurated in the square of the Gheorghe Asachi Lyceum from Chisinau, on the location where the girls’ high school named after the queen was once placed. The statue is over six meters tall and depicts Queen Marie of Romania on the day of her coronation in Alba Iulia, holding a Bible in her left hand.

The initiative to erect a monument to Queen Marie belongs to lawyer Iulian Rusanovschi and was launched on March 27, 2018, at the celebration of the Centenary of the Great Union. The image of the Queen was crafted in bronze by sculptor Veaceslav Jiglițchi, based on a project by architect Mihail Andrieș, with the artistic layout supervised by an international commission of experts. The pedestal was made from Cosauti stone by craftsman Marin Lozan. The funds needed for the monument's construction were raised by the Monumentum Association through a public subscription.

On March 28, starting from 10:00, an international symposium titled, Queen Marie – The Queen of the Great Union, will take place in the Queen Marie Hall of the State University of Moldova (USM).