Gheorghe Madan – agent al Imperiului Rus. “Agent personal” al guvernatorului Basarabiei. Cazul Sergiu Cujbă*
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
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