15 Facts About Alexandru Nicolau

Alexandru Nicolau was a Romanian lawyer, socialist and later communist activist.

Alexandru Nicolau's name was posthumously rehabilitated both in the Soviet Union and in his native Romania.

Bujor, Toma Dragu and Titel Petrescu, and by socialist sympathizer Constantin Mille, Alexandru Nicolau was eventually acquitted by the jury.

Alexandru Nicolau reacted by publishing in Paris a study highly critical of the Romanian ruling classes, titled The Crime of the Romanian Oligarchy.

Alexandru Nicolau was present in Iasi during the revolutionary agitation which emerged during the 1917 May Day celebrations and under the impression of the February Revolution.

Alexandru Nicolau settled in Odessa and, along with Bujor, Ion Dic Dicescu, and Alter Zalic, he was one of the organisers and afterwards leaders of the Romanian Committee for Social-Democratic Action established in the city.

Alexandru Nicolau became the editor of Lupta, which presented itself as the successor of Romania Muncitoare.

Alexandru Nicolau was elected the group's chairman, with another PSDR member, Ion Penta, being elected secretary and representative to the Federation of Foreign Groups.

Alexandru Nicolau began publishing regularly in Foaia taranului, the former organ of the Revolutionary Peasants' Party.

Alexandru Nicolau returned to Romania in 1920, however he was apprehended by the authorities, and imprisoned in Jilava along with a larger group of communists, including Alecu Constantinescu.

On March 31,1931, Alexandru Nicolau was sentenced in absentia to death by the Romanian authorities.

Alexandru Nicolau joined the Romanian section of the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West, where he lectured on topics such as history and social sciences, and worked as a teacher for the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages.

Alexandru Nicolau was among the Romanian Communist refugees in Soviet Russia who in 1924 signed a memorandum calling for the creation of a Moldovan national territory inside the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, near the disputed border with Romania.

Alexandru Nicolau was executed on the same day, and buried in the Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow.

Alexandru Nicolau was posthumously rehabilitated on September 15,1956, through a decision of the Soviet Supreme Court during the De-Stalinisation campaign.