Grigore Turcuman

Grigore Turcuman in 1935

Cpt. R.N. Grigore Turcuman in January 1940

Grigore Turcuman, captured by the Soviet NKVD

Grigore Turcuman (October 20, 1890, Tătărăuca Nouă, Soroca district - May 28, 1942, Penza) was a Bessarabian Romanian politician, Member of Sfatul Țării (the Bessarabian Parliament). He voted the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania (March 27, 1918).

Biography

Grigore Turcuman was born in a Romanian (Moldovan) family from Soroca district (Bessarabia). He served as Navy officer in the Imperial Russian Navy (Black Sea naval force), during the World War I. After the beginning of the Russian Revolution he came back to Bessarabia, being elected in November 21, 1917 Member of "Sfatul Țării" (the Moldovan Parliament), as representative of the Bessarabian Romanian soldiers and officers (1917–1918). Representing the opinion of the Majority, he voted the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania (March 27, 1918). Later he was advanced in rank of Navy Captain (in reserve), in the Romanian Royal Navy - the Black Sea Division. As member of the Romanian National Liberal Party, he was involved in the administration of the Soroca District, being Sub-prefect between 1933-1937. For his political activity, as Romanian Unionist, in 1940 he was captured by the Soviet NKVD, being exterminated in Gulag.

Gallery

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  Moldovan stamp, 1998
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  Palace of Sfatul Ţării (December 10, 1918).
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  1940s persecutions against Sfatul Ţării members

Bibliography

• Sărbătoarea Basarabiei. Deschiderea celui dintâiu Sfat al Țării, la Chișinău, în ziua de 21 Noemvrie 1917. Extras din Gazeta „Ardealul” Nr. 9. Chișinău, Tipografia Soc. Culturale a Românilor din Basarabia, 1917 (p. 17, 126).
• Dimitrie Bogos, La răspântie. Moldova de la Nistru între anii 1917-1918. Chișinău, Editura Soc. „Glasul Țării”, 1924 (p. 72, 84, 112).
• Chiriac, Alexandru, Membrii Sfatului Țării. 1917-1918. Dicționar, Editura Fundației Culturale Române, București, 2001.
• Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul țării: itinerar, Civitas, Chișinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
• Mihai Tașcă, Sfatul Țării și actualele autorități locale, "Timpul de dimineață", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16).
• Elena Postică, Deputați ai Sfatului Țării exterminați de NKVD. Revista „22”, 24 aug. 2010. http://www.revista22.ro/deputati-ai-sfatului-tarii-exterminati-de-nkvd-8758.html
• Votarea Unirii în Sfatul Țării http://romaniancoins.org/rounireabasarabiei.html
• Iurie Colesnic, Sfatul Țării. Enciclopedie, Chișinău, Casa Cărții „Petru Movilă”, Editura Museum, 1998, p. 292.
• „Eliberați” pentru a fi nimiciți (grupaj): Grigorii Turcuman, în „Moldova suverană”, nr. 96, 24 iunie 1993, p. 3.
• File:Sfatul Tarii, 10 December 2018.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sfatul_Tarii,_10_December_1918.jpg

External links

• Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
• Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria

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