31 Facts About Vladimir Cavarnali

Vladimir or Vlad Cavarnali was a Bessarabian-born Romanian poet, journalist, editor, and political figure.

Vladimir Cavarnali was a translator of Russian and more generally Slavic literature, earning praise for his version of Maxim Gorky's Mother.

Vladimir Cavarnali was still praised for his work as a cultural animator in his native town of Bolgrad, and especially for the unexpectedly high standards of his own literary journal, Moldavia.

Vladimir Cavarnali died in relative obscurity at the age of 55, and was survived by Ecaterina, wife of the communist playwright Mihail Davidoglu.

Vladimir Cavarnali was born a subject of the Russian Empire on 10 August 1910, in Bolgrad.

Bolgrad and the rest of Bessarabia were indeed only united with Romania in 1918, when Vladimir Cavarnali was aged 7.

Vladimir Cavarnali's cultural formation in Greater Romania was a "wall [which] separates us, as hostile neighbors".

Vladimir Cavarnali studied locally, graduating from the Bolgrad lyceum; during the graduation ceremony of July 1927, he recited two of his own poems.

Vladimir Cavarnali then attended the University of Bucharest, taking a degree in philosophy and letters.

Vladimir Cavarnali returned to the Budjak as a schoolteacher, first at Chilia, and then at Bolgrad.

Vladimir Cavarnali's debut was closely followed by that of his sister.

Young Vladimir Cavarnali embarked on a political career with the National Liberal Party, joining its chapter in Ismail County.

Vladimir Cavarnali later served as chairman of the Crusade sections in southern Bessarabia, but quit the party on 10 September 1936, due to ideological disagreements with its new leadership.

One of his last contributions for that group's paper was an homage to the left-wing intellectual Constantin Stere, whom Vladimir Cavarnali described as a victim of a "poisonous, ruinous nationalism", and of attacks mounted by "the illiterate".

Vladimir Cavarnali had by then returned to Viata Basarabiei with an article which chided young Romanian writers for being more interested in joining the cultural bureaucracy than they were in struggling for literary recognition.

Vladimir Cavarnali was a regular contributor to journals put out elsewhere in Bessarabia, including Generatia Noua, Itinerar, and Pagini Basarabene, as well as a frequent traveler to the regional hub of Chisinau; in 1938, his work was sampled by the modernist magazine of Brasov, Front Literar.

Vladimir Cavarnali was newly married in August 1939, and had honeymooned at the Romanian Writers' Society retreat in Busteni.

Vladimir Cavarnali was voted in as a member of the SSB executive committee.

Vladimir Cavarnali completed a Romanian version of the Kalevala, which appeared in Prepoem magazine of Bucharest.

Around June 1940, during the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia, Vladimir Cavarnali was for a while considered missing.

Vladimir Cavarnali lost all contact with Halippa, who later reported that Cavarnali, like Nencev and Costenco, had stayed behind in Chisinau.

The authorities found Vladimir Cavarnali and reinstated him, whereupon he joined a circle of writers formed around Basarabia newspaper.

From 1944 to 1947, having been displaced to Bucharest, Vladimir Cavarnali worked as both a high school professor and a journalist, publishing new poems in the journal Orizonturi.

Vladimir Cavarnali founded the children's magazine Inainte, which published its first issue on 5 October 1945.

Vladimir Cavarnali was for a while a teacher of Romanian literature and history at the Boys' School in Giurgiu, but, by 1947, had been moved back to the capital as a substitute teacher in Gheorghe Sincai National College.

In January 1949, Vladimir Cavarnali was assigned to the Public Education Ministry as a reviewer in the Youth Education Directorate, part of a team led by Amos Bradu.

Vladimir Cavarnali had been received into the Communist Party, but, on 22 March 1950, found himself targeted by a review commission, and recommended for exclusion.

Vladimir Cavarnali's subsequent focus on translation work produced editions of Valentina Oseyeva's Vassiok Trubachov and His Comrades, Anna Brodele's Marta, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's In the World of Moderation and Precision.

Vladimir Cavarnali is largely seen as a Romanian disciple of Russian Symbolism, and more generally the Russian avant-garde; an often cited precursor and model is Sergei Yesenin.

Vladimir Cavarnali viewed Rasadul as forming a singular poetic cycle, with themes that evoked both Mihai Eminescu's Luceafarul and Alfred de Vigny's Moise.

Demetrescu described the volume as a "poetic garden" still riddled with "weeds", advising Vladimir Cavarnali to reduce the weight of his self-referential poetry in any future works.