| Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea | |
|---|---|
| Location | Downtown Chişinău |
| Designer | V. Ionescu-Varo |
| Opening date | 1933 |
| Dedicated to | Simeon G. Murafa, Alexei Mateevici, Andrei Hodorogea |
The Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea (Romanian: Monumentul în memoria eroilor naţionali Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici şi Andrei Hodorogea) was a monument in Downtown Chişinău, Moldova.[1][2][3] It existed between 1933 and 1940.
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The monument was opened in 1933, in the park of the Nativity Cathedral in Downtown Chişinău. The monument was dedicated to Simeon G. Murafa, Alexei Mateevici, and Andrei Hodorogea. All of them died in August 1917.
In the evening of August 20, 1917 some 200 Russian soldiers, with Bolshevist leaders, seized and murdered two of the most conspicuous Moldavian leaders, Andrei Hodorogea and Simeon G. Murafa, in Chişinău itself.[4][5][6]
On July 17, 1917 Alexei Mateevici wrote the poem Limba noastră (English: Our Language), today the national anthem of the Republic of Moldova. A month later, on August 24, 1917, he died of epidemic typhus.
After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the monument was destroyed in 1940.[7][8][9]