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constantin stamati

constantin stamati -lrb- 1786 , iaşi -- september 12 , 1869 , ocniţa -rrb- was a romanian/moldovan writer and translator .
he settled in chişinău , bessarabia -lrb- presently in moldova -rrb- after the 1812 partition of moldavia at the end of the russo-turkish war , but made his literary debut in iaşi .
stamati became a civil servant and official translator under the first russian administration of the region .
he was rewarded by the russian emperor with the medal of saint anne and became a knight of that order .
he made the acquaintance of the russian poet alexander pushkin at the time of latter 's exile to chişinău in 1820-1823 .
stamati 's most important work , `` povestea poveştilor '' -lrb- `` the tale of tales '' -rrb- , an idealized description of moldavia 's beginnings in verse , was published in iaşi in 1843 .
his other works include contemporary satires and glorifications of moldavia 's past .
in 1866 , he became one of the founding members of the romanian academy .
