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The story of the aviator who died in anonymity after flying at -40 degrees with the documents of the Great Union on December 1, 1918
In the afternoon of November 23, 1918, on the Liberty Plain of Blaj, a flying machine piloted by a forgotten hero, a watchmaker unknown to anyone, brought a message of peace, a sackful of manifests and a sealed bag, which contained, among other documents, the letter...
The Bolsheviks and Romania. The first step towards truce and betrayal
During the Great War, Romania’s main ally on the Eastern Front was naturally Russia. Things began to complicate in 1917, when the February Revolution took place in the Russian Empire, that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917. Relations between...
1919: How the Romanian soldiers hanged a peasant’s sandal on the Parliament of Budapest
Romanian-Hungarian relations reached their lowest point in 1919 as the end of the First World War escalated the long running tensions between the two nations. The establishment of the communist regime in Russia and Bela Kun’s subsequent seizure of power in Hungary,...
The last Christmas in exile, “Hard times and sad, sad circumstances”
The Royal Family spent another Christmas in exile. Once more, those in distress were not forgotten, Queen Marie spending her entire time going through hospitals, being at the side of wounded soldiers and typhus patients. In 1917, however, they could enjoy a fir tree...
The first Christmas in exile. “… without Mircea! Without our home! Without half of our country! “
The Christmas of 1916 is the first celebration that the Royal Family and the refugees of Muntenia spent in exile in Iași. It was a Christmas without the usual traditions, without presents, without fir trees, and without joy because it was the first Christmas since the...