The cruel fate of the priest Alexandru Baltaga, deputy in the Country Council
Archival documents show that Alexander Baltaga was born on 14 April 1861 “in the family of the priest from the village of Lozova Stefan, to Andrei Baltaga and his legitimate wife Elena Prohorievna, both by first marriage, of Orthodox faith”. Raised in humility towards the sacred, the young Alexander, after the parochial school in Lozova, continued his studies at the Theological Seminary in Chișinău, where he graduated in 1883, being a classmate of Alexandru Ciugureanu, father of Daniel Ciugureanu, the future Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Moldavia, one of the founders of the union of Bessarabia with Romania. […]