Arethia Tătărescu was born 16 September 1889 in Bucharest, Romania to Gheorghe Piteșteanu (c1850-c1895) and died 1968 Bucharest, Romania of unspecified causes. She married Gheorghe Tătărescu (1886-1957) 1916 in Craiova, Gorj County, Romania.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Sanda Tătărescu (1919-2009) | |||
| Tudor Tătărescu (c1920-1955) | |||
Siblings
Residences
Arethia Tătărescu (also spelled Arethia Tătărăscu, born 16 Septembrie 1889, Bucharest, died 1968, Bucharest) - born Arethia Piteșteanu - was the wife of former Romanian prime-minister Gheorghe Tătărescu. She dedicated her activity to promoting the popular art and traditions of Gorj County. She was president of the National League of Women of Gorj County. Among the projects she promoted in this capacity the most outstanding are the creation of the Constantin Brâncuși Sculptural Ensemble in Târgu Jiu, the restauration of the Tudor Vladimirescu Memorial House in Vladimir, the conversion of Ecaterina Teodoroiu's house into a memorial house. În 1935 she was awarded the title of
honorary citizen of the town of Târgu Jiu. After 1947 she was subjected to repression by the communist regime of the country.
Biographical elements
Arethia Piteșteanu was born on 16 September 1889 in Bucharest. Her father, Gheorghe Piteșteanu descended from a family of boyars of Argeș County. Both her parents died when Arethia was still a child. Arethia and her two brothers Gheorghe și Alexandru left with one of their grandmothers for Belgium where Arethia attended primary and secondary school. She then enroled in the music section of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles) where she studied piano.
Returning to Romania, Arethia Piteșteanu took a job as piano professor at the Music Lyceum of Bucharests. At the same time she got involved in founding the Romanian Scouts Association, in 1913, being one of the leaders of the "Păstorul Bucur" cohort.
During the summer of 1916, while on vacation in Tismana, she encounters Gheorghe Tătărescu, at that time a young lawyer, who had recently completed his studies in Paris. Conscripted due to the military preparations which preceded Romania's entry into World War I, Gheoghe Tătărescu was in Gorj County as under-lieutenant. At the start of hostilities, Arethia Piteșteanu and Gheorghe Tătărescu married in a hurry in Craiova at the end of summer 1916.
Her husband soon left for the front line and when the German army occupied Wallachia Arethia Tătărescu followed her husband in the Romanian retreat to Moldavia. At the end of the war, in 1919, the Tătărescus were in Botoşani, where Gheorghe Tărărescu had the responsibility of aide of the commander of the School of Infantry Officers. [1]
After the war, Arethia and Gheorghe Tătărescu visit Punjab, India, and then settle in Bucharest. They also purchase the estate of Poiana and for over ten year build and extend the estate's manor house.[2]
They had two children, a daughter Sanda who married Ulysses Negroponte and a son Tudor, who died in Paris in 1955.
The title of honorary citizen of the city of Târgu Jiu was awarded to Arethia Tătăresc for her social, cultural and humanitarian activities. The ceremony took place in the amphitheater of the Tudor Vladimirescu Lyceum of Târgu Jiu on 13 September 1936 [1]
After 1947 Arethia Tătărescu encountered severe hardship as her house and estates had been nationalized by the communist government and both her husband and daughter were imprisoned as political detainees. She died in 1968 and was interred next to her husband in the family vault of Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest.
The Tătărescu Cula, the main building of the Poiana manor
The Tătărescu manor in Poiana
In 1918, the Tătărescu family purchased the estate of Poiana (today on the territory of the town of Rovinari, the former village of Poiana becoming a neighborhood of the city). The manor house compound was centered around an existing cula (a traditional fortified house of Oltenia) built in 1790 by Dobre Sârbu, a merchant of Târgu Jiu. In 1820 the building is consequently owned by pitar Dincă Poenaru (the cula is also known as the Poenaru Cula, and some sources claim that he built the house [3]), then by Dincă Schileru and Paulina Carabatescu. In 1919 the building was purchased by Aretia şi Gheorghe Tătărescu. As the building had been significantly deteriorated during World War I, in 1924 the Tătărescus start an extensive restauration. [4]
The cula, having a ground floor and a second floor has lost its initial layout, due to the various changes made during the 19th and 20th century and has been transformed into a modern residence. The building has very thick brick walls with big windows. The roof is covered with wood shingles. The entry to the building is made by an arched gallery and is marked by two stone lions. Inside a wooden stairway leads to the bedrooms and to the covered balcony. Aretia Tătărescu initiated a succesion of remodeling projects. In 1920-1921 the building was consolidated and repaired. In 1923 se the plumbing of the building is installed and later the electric wiring was done. Also in 1923 the house is decorated with oak wood carpentry. In 1923-1935 a bathroom is installed on the second floor, fireplaces covered with glazed terra-cotta are built and the floors are cover with oak parquet. The exterior of the house has decorative elements included at Aretia Tătărescu initiative.[4] [5]
Church of the Tătărescu manor
Tomb of the Tătărescu family
In 1923-1924, the Tătărescu family restores the Saint George Church of Poiana. The wooden church, with a shingle roof had a single nave and a porch. The wooden bell tower was built in 1923, at the same time with the church renovation. The altar is separated from the naos by an inconostasis decorated with icons painted in tempera in 1835-1845 and rustic painted doors. Besides the renovation, the Tătărescu family also provided wooden furniture and a brass chandelier. <refname="cula"> Having purchased the entire estate, the church became a chapel of the Tătărescu family.
The parents and great parents of George Tătărescu were reinhumed near the church. The tomb is a subterranean construction, marked by a pedestal covered with black venetian marble. The socle is made of sculpted stone. [5]
The great gate to the manor was made of sculpted oak wood by artisan Dumitru Pasăre, from Bălești în 1933.[5]
The Tătărescu manor compound also included the residence of the administrator, built in 1923 and having three rooms and a gallery.
The Mogoș house
In 1934, the Tătărescu family bought the Antonie Mogoș house in the village of Ceauru. Arethia Tătărescu had the house moved to the compound of her mansion in Poiana and remodeled as a guest house, using the similar house presented in the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest as a model. The house had to undergo significant transformations before being suitable as a guest house. The interior looks like a rustic style residence whith oak parquet floors and simple white walls. [5]
The area in which the Poiana manor was located had been affected by the open lignite mines of Rovinari. Therefore, after having recovered her property rights on the manor buildings, Sanda Tătărescu-Negroponte, George and Arethia Tătărescu's daughter decided moving all the constructions to the Museum of Popular Architecture of Gorj in Curtișoara and donating them to the museum where the manor is now known as the Gheorghe Tătărescu architectural ensemble. The relocation took place in 2000-2002 under the supervision of architect Dumitru Florescu, who tried to locate and orient each of the buildings so as to reconstitute, as far as possible, the old Poiana manor. [5]
The Europa Hotel in Târgu Jiu, formerly the Gorj County residence of the Tătărescu family
Besides the Poiana estate, the Tătărescu family also owned a big residence in Târgu Jiu city. In 1913, the building, located on Calea Unirii, nr. 22, is known to have been owned by Ion Câlniceanu, mayor of the town of Târgu Jiu şi afterwards member of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate of the Romanian parliament. The building was purchased by the Tătărescu family after World War I and was used as a secondary residence of the family which lived mostly in Bucharest. However, the building was also used as seat of the Gorj County chapter of the Gheorghe Tătărescu wing of the National Liberal Party, when this party split, after World War II. The communist authorities nationalized the house by Decree No. 92 of 1950 and the ownership of the house could be recovered by Sanda Tătărescu-Negroponte only at the end of the 1990s. On 27 September 2002, she sold the building to Valter and Mirela Dobre, who remodelled it and transformed it into a hotel. They attempted to harmonize the historical value of the structure with the contemporaneous needs. Hotel Europa was inaugurated on 6 March 2005 [6]
Arethia Tătărescu în apartamentul ei din conacul Tătărescu
Organizing artizanal production in Gorj County
Admiring the beauty of the art, costumes, folclore and habits of the local population, Arethia Tătărescu got involved in the life of Gorj County and, during all her life tried to encourage activities linked to the people and history of the county. To achieve these goals she was involved in various organizations working in these fields, being president of the National League of Women of Gorj County even since its beginnings, president of the Gorj chapter of the "National Red Cross Society" – Filiala Gorj, created on 3 November 1939, and president of the Gorj Chapter of "Society of Orthodox Women" [7]
Under Arethia Tătărescu's leadership, the league created village centers for artisan activities for women, workshops with looms for young women of Gorj in Tismana and Târgu Jiu and a school for household in Rovinari. [6] Arethia Tătărescu encouraged the production in of local artisan products, mainly rugs and national costumes. The results of these efforts was visible at the Marker-Exhibition of Artisan Products organized in June 1934 in Bucharest, where the production of all counties and regions of Romania was presented, but the products of Gorj County were by far outstanding. To mark this success, king Carol II awarded Arethia Tătărescu the Meritul Cultural order with the rank of knight, II-a class.
The Romanian national costumes and the Oltenian rugs were also praised at high ranked international exhibitions such as the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1937, the 1939 New York World's Fair [6] and the VII-the Trienanal Exhibition of Milano, 1940 [8]
Construction of the building for the Alexandru Stefulescu museum
In 1925, the board of the National League of Women of Gorj County decided to build a Romanian style building for the "Alexandru Ştefulescu Museum", now called Alexandru Ștefulescu Gorj County Museum (Muzeul Județean Gorj Alexandru Ștefulescu) and selected the location in the southern part of the Târgu Jiu Muncipal Park. [1] Alexandru Ștefulescu, a teacher and director of the elementary school for boys in Târgu-Jiu had founded in 1893 a historical and archeological collection. He succeeded to assemble many intellectuals of city around him, among which professor Iuliu Moisil, engineer Aurel Daiconovici and artist Vitold Rola Piekarski. They supported his initiatives and helped in collecting relevant materials which enriched the Ștefulescu collection and formed the centerpieces of the museum which was founded on 16 iulie 1894. From 1898, the museum's collections were housed in the great hall of the new building of the oii clădiri a Tudor Vladimirescu Gymnazium.
During World War I, part of the collection was stolen or destroyed, but the museum was able to maintain its existence. In 1925, the National League of Women of Gorj County and the leadership of its president Arethia Tătărescu, a fund collection campaign was started fot the construction of a building for the museum. The building was designed by architect arhitectul Iulius Doppelreiter, who used as model the architecture of the Crăsnaru cula in the village of Groșerea. The building was located in the public park of Târgu Jiu city. The new building of the museum was inaugurated on 5 September 1926 and was used by the museum until 1954[9]
The Ecaterina Teodoroiu memorial house
The Ecaterina Teodoroiu Memorial House
The National League of Women of Gorj County was deeply concerned by conserving the memory of Ecaterina Teodoroiu, a woman of Gorj County who had joined the Romanian army at the beginning of World War I and who was killed during the hostilities. She was seen as a woman hero as well as a hero who came from the local community. These efforts concentrated on preserving the house in which the heroine was born as well as on the construction of a mausoleum in her honor..
The house in which Ecaterina Teodoroiu (her correct name being Cătălina Toderoiu) was born, was located in the village of Vădeni, now included in the city of Târgu Jiu, on the Târgu Jiu - Petrosani highway. Built in 1884 by Ecaterina's parents, the peasant house had two rooms, the room with the stove and the sleeping room. There is a porch on the front side of the house and also on the western side. Followint the efforts of the National League of Women of Gorj County, the house was consolidated in 1938, and declared a memorial house. The family members kept the use of the house until 1945. The house was again restored in 1959, when it was transformed in museum.[10] [11]
The Ecaterina Teodoroiu mausoleum
Ecaterina Teodoroiu's mausoleum
Built în 1936, at the initiative of the National League of Women of Gorj County, Ecaterina Teodoroiu's mausoleum in Târgu Jiu, is the work of sculptor Milița Pătrașcu. It is located in the center of the city, in the middle of Piața Victoriei (Victory Place) in front of the office of the Prefect and the Church of Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel.
The mausoleum is a two meter high sarcophagus, in Italian travertine, on a pedestal having three steps. The bas-reliefs on the faces of the monument present aspects of the heroine's life:
- - the south face shows a scene of her life in her native village,
- - the north face shows her saluted by the scouts of the organization she had joined in secondary school
- - the east side shows her during the was, attacking in front of the platoon she was commanding.
- - the west side shows her body being carried towards the place of her interment.
In the corners, four women in Romanian national costumes with laurel crowns keep watch.
Ecaterina Teorodoriu was killed on 22 August 1917, în the fighting which took place on Dealul Secului, în the Muncelu – Varnița, in the last phase of the battle of Mărășești. Being buried initially in the village of Fitionești, her remains had been taken from Moldavia to he home village and intered in Vădeni în June 1921. After the construction of the mausoleum, her remains were again moved to her final resting place in the mausoleum.
The mausoleum was inaugurated on 6 September 1936 în the presence of Arethia and Gheorghe Tătărescu[12] [13][14][15]
The Tudor Vladimirescu memorial house
Building the Tudor Vladimirescu memorial house
Thea Tudor Vladimirescu memorial house was built in 1932, with the help of National League of Women of Gorj County and again A+rethia Tătărescu was the driving force of this project. The house is a replica of the one in which Tudor Vladimirescu lived. The construction was coordinated by architect Iulius Doppelreiter, using as model a photograph of the original house published at the beginning of the 20th century.
At prezent, the memorial house is subordinated part to the Alexandru Ștefulescu Gorj County Museumvand is included in the List of historical monuments in Romania as comemorative monument. The building is a typical peasant construction, with two rooms and a porch with wooden sculpted posts, specific to Gorj County. In the two rooms objects, pictures and documents are presented, illustrating his life and activity. [16]
Constantin Brâncuși, Arethia Tătărescu (second row in the middle) and the ladies of the National League of Women of Gorj County at the inauguration of the Brâncuși ensemble
Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși
Articol principal Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu Wanting to glorify the heroes born in Gorj County who lost their lives during the war of unification, in 1937 the National League of Women of Gorj County under the leadership of Arethia Tătărescu decided to donate to the city of Târgu Jiu a column and a stone portal, works of sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi. The mayor of the city was notified of this decision by an official letter registered under No.6330 in 20 October 1937.
Letter of donation of the Brancusi artwork to the city hall of Târgu Jiu
| “ | Mister Mayor,
Having the desire to contribute as much as possible to raising the city of Târgu Jiu and especially to glorify the memory of the Gorj heroes who sacrified their lives during the war of national unification, the National League of Women of Gorj County informs you that it has decided to donate to the city a stone column and portal, works of the great sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi. In this way we bring a homage of gratitude to Gorj County, his native county. The wish of the League is that this donation should have the following destination: the creation of a street which should be called the Heroes' Avenue, which should start from the banks of the Jiu River, crossing the Public Park and continuing to the location of the existing army barracks. This street has been included for a long time in the city plan, but the plan could not be implemented due to the lack of funding. For the payment of the required expropriations the League will provide the amount of 750.000 lei. At the beginning of the avenue the portal will be installed and at its end, near the army barracks the Column of Gratitude will be errected, creating a link between the places for which the soldiers of Gorj fought with the ideea of infinite gratitude symbolized by the column. The National League of Women of Gorj County also decided to build the "Church of the Holy Apostols", located on the street destinata eroilor, bringing its contribution to the completion of this building which had been abandoned for a very long time and by the errection of this halidom giving an enhanced brilliance to our gratitude for those who sacrificed their life. The invoices paid for the two monuments, the church building and the amount paid for the expropriations in total value of 2.200.000 lei, are exclusively the rezults of our work of several years, as well as of the "Romanian Exhibition" organized under the league's auspices. As our donation has arisen only from our sentiment of pure love of our country, we specify that both the art objects and the amounts donated must only be used for the indicated purpose. The National League of Women of Gorj County understands that the town of Târgu Jiu will forever respect the donation in the form under which it has been made. Arethia G. Tătărăscu [1] |
” |
Masa tăcerii
Aleea scaunelor
Poarta sărutului
Coloana infinitului
Contactat de Arethia Tătărescu, Constantin Brâncuși a acceptat solicitarea, dar a refuzat plata pentru lucrările sale, pe care le-a donat orașului Târgu-Jiu. Ansamblul sculptural Constantin Brâncuși, inaugurat la 7 noiembrie 1937, odată cu sfințirea bisericii ”Sfinții Apostoli” cuprinde:
- The Table of Silence – called by Brâncuși "The table of the nation's apostols" și symbolizes the meal before the battle in which the Romanian soldiers were going to fight. The 12 hourglass-stools which symbolically measure the time represent the number of the apostols.
- TheGate of the Kiss - called by Brâncuși "The Monument of the Unity of the Nation" having the form of an Arch of Triumph, which is made of two pillars, each of one is composed respectively by four pillars, connected on the top by a beam. The kiss (actually an embrace) symbolizes the Unity, while the eight pillars represent the eight provinces of the unified Greater Romania.
- The Endless Column – called by Brâncuși "The Column of the infinite sacrifice" given by the Romanian heroes for the Unity of the Nation. The number of component modules represents the year on which Romania entered World War 1 and the ending half module represents the half part of the respective year.
Consequently the "Stool Alley" was added to these three elements.
Brâncuși's creation was the object also of other interpretations of the meaning of the different elements of the ensemble. However, both the National League of Women of Gorj County, under the leadership of Arethia Tătărescu, and Constantin Brâncuși unequivocally conceived the work as an unitary ensemble expressing the gratitude to the Romanian soldiers fallen in World War I. [1][17]
Construction of the Church of the Holy Apostols Peter and Paul
Church of the Holy Apostols Peter and Paul
The Church of the Holy Apostols Peter and Paul is located on the axis of the Herows Avenue on the location of another church, built in 1777 and thereafter destroyed. The construcția had been started in 1927, but the construction was halted because of the nonavailability of funding. The National League of Women of Gorj County organized a campaing of fundraising for the continuation of the construction. Arethia Tătărescu had an important role in the fundraising activities.
Th construction was supervised by architects Ion Antonescu, Anghel Păunescu şi Iulius Doppellreiter, the construction being carried out by the company of brothers Di Bernardo and Luigi Pittiui. The neo-byzantine painting was done in fresco by gorjean painter Iosif Keber and the iconostasis, pulpit, choir and oak wood furniture were made by specialist Ioan Keleș from Bucharest and the 'Tadici-Alexandra' factory of Târgu Jiu. The church was consecrated on 7 November 1937, in the presence of patriarch at the same time with the inauguration of the sculpture enbemble. .[14] [18] [19]
The activities of the Women's League din not end with the consecration of the church and the inauguratio of the ensemble. The letter, registered with No. 7501 of 27 October 1938, written during the festivities of handing over the Hero's Ensemble to the City Hall of Târgu Jiu, indicates that the total value of the donation is of 2.436.275 lei composed of: - the Church of the Holy Apostols dedicated to the heros – 666.462 lei - Expropriation for opening Heroes' Avenue – 746.000 lei - The stone portalul in the public park of the city – 683.198 lei - The column for the memory of the heroes who died in the war of unification of the nation – 340.615 lei[1]
= Other activities
Arethia Tătărescu was also concerned of other past periods of Gorj County and financially supported related research projects. Thus she contributed to studies leading to the discovery of the Roman castrum in Bumbești-Jiu as well as to research of the ruins in Telești. [7]
Social activities
Arethia Tătărescu, backed by her husband Gheorghe Tătărescu, supported the constructium of a sanatorium for tuberculosis and lung diseases in Suseni-Dobrița. The first pavilions of the sanatorium were inaugurated on 2 August 1936 and started operating under the leadership of Doctor Nicolae Hasnaș. [1]
Arethia Tătărescu was also extremely active fighting against concubinage, which in her view was a factor of social decay. As the danger of a new war increased, she intensified these efforts, aiming at giving the new born children an identity having no legal problems, thus protecting them in case the husband was killed during the war, insuring them the privileges granted to war widows or orphans. In order to reach herf objective, Arethia Tătărescu periodically organized collective marriage ceremonies for unmarried couples living in concubinage. Sanda Tătărescu-Negroponte, Arethia's daughter recalls that in 1939 "in Poiana, a special place was set up for celebrating the marriage of over 1500 couples of various ages, who were living together unmarried not only in the proximity but also from remote villages. My brother and me could hardly carry the heavy candles. Tables had been set up for serving food, but what impressed me most was that even women with grey hair had put verbena flowers and a white veil on their head. ”[20]
The Arethia and Gheorghe Tătărescu families were godparents of many of the married couples and gave them consistent gifts and to the landless couples they also gave parcels of land.
The controversy of Arethia Tătărescu's bust
Bust of Arethia Tătărescu by Paul Popescu
To honor Arethia Tătărescu, the city hall of the town of Târgu Jiu decided to install her bust decis in the park which bears her name. The statue was inaugurated in the fall of 2013, two years after the bust of Gheorghe Tătărăscu, her husband, had also been inaugurated. Both statues were made by sculptor Paul Popescu, professor at the Music and Plastic Arts Lyceum of Târgu Jiu.
După instalare, lucrarea a fost criticată de Radu Boroianu. secretar de stat în Ministerul Culturii a cerut ca bustul Arethiei Tătărescu să fie dat jos, pentru că statuia a ar fi "prea sexoasa. Aretha Tătărescu are sânii cam mari". La rândul său, Pompiliu Grigore Ciolacu, directorul executiv al Directiei Județene pentru Cultură, Culte și Patrimoniu Cultural Național, Gorj a spus despre bust ca este "exagerat din punct de vedere artistic" si ca asta inseamna ca "din punct de vedere estetic, nu seamana cu imaginea reala a persoanei".
Pompiliu Ciolacu i-a cerut sculptorului Paul Popescu să reducă proporțiile sânilor, ceea ce artistul a refuzat declarând "Este un motiv cât se poate de subiectiv şi ţine de alte gusturi. Nu tuturor trebuie să ne placă acelaşi tip de dame, cum nici damelor nu le place acelaşi tip de macho".
Ca rezultat, secretarul de stat Radu Boroianu a cerut demolarea ambelor busturi, sub pretextul că fuseseră ridicate într-un spațiu public, fără aprobarea Ministerului. Aceasta nu explică însă de ce această decizie bizară a fost luată abea după inaugurarea bustului Arethiei Tătărescu, și nu cu doi ani înainte când a fost inaugurat cel al lui Gheorghe Tătărescu.
Obiecțiile aduse amintesc de principiile estetice ale realismului socialist. Se poate face analogia cu faptul că una din primele măsuri luate în București de autoritățile comuniste după preluarea puterii în 1947, a fost cea de distrugere a cariatidelor de pe clădirea fostei Bănci Albina (azi clădirea Administrației Apele Române) de pe strada Edgar Quinet, sânii cariatidelor fiind considerați la acea vreme incompatibili cu "morala proletară".
În orice caz controversa a fost scoasă în evidență de presa internațională, care a relatat cu ironie faptul ridiculizând deciziile ”estetice” ale autorităților.[21][2] [22] [23]<ref="Huffington Post">[ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/21/breasts-romania-sculpture_n_5184474.html] 'Breasts Too Large' On Bust Of Romania's Former First Lady Arethia Tatarescu, Ministry Of Culture Says </ref> [24][25][26]
Regardless of all this, Arethia Tătărescu has, even after her death, the fate of being oppressed by the Romanian authorities.
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- ^ a b Cula Gheorghe Tătărescu
- ^ a b c d e [ http://www.verticalonline.ro/muzeul-curti%C8%99oara-salveaza-trecutul-gorjului Muzeul Curtișoara salvează trecutul Gorjului – Vertical, 25 August 2010
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- ^ Guida VII Triennale 1940, p. 32-33
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- ^ [ http://cesavezi.ro/obiective-turistice/2-institutii-de-cultura/1603-casa-memoriala-tudor-vladimirescu] Casa memorială "Tudor Vladimirescu"
- ^ [ http://www.financiarul.ro/2013/09/06/ce-reprezinta-masa-tacerii-poarta-sarutului-si-coloana-infinita/] Ce reprezintă Masa Tăcerii, Poarta Sărutului şi Coloana Infinită? – Ecaterina Pop - Financiarul 8 septembrie 2013
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- ^ [ http://viataingorj.ro/ar/dezvaluiri/disparitia-usilor-de-la-biserica-sfintii-apostoli-petru-si-pavel/] Dispariţia uşilor de la Biserica Sfinţii Apostoli Petru şi Pavel
- ^ http://www.hotelrestauranteuropa.ro/blog/istoric/arethia-tatarescu-doamna-gorjului-interbelic.html Arethia Tatarescu Doamna Gorjului interbelic
- ^ [7] Bustul "prea generos" al Arethei Tatarescu a ajuns in presa din strainatate
- ^ [8] Bust of Romania’s former first lady Arethia Tatarescu in row as breasts are too large
- ^ [9] Bust Romania’s former lady Arethia Tatarescu centre row. Minister Culture says breasts large.html
- ^ [10] Марина Литвинова - Памятнику бывшей первой леди Румынии сделали чересчур большой бюст
- ^ [ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bust-of-romanias-former-first-lady-too-sexy-says-ministry-of-culture-9273159.html] Bust of Romania's former first lady 'too sexy', says Ministry of Culture
- ^ [11] Breasts are "too large" on the bust of Arethia Tatarescu