Museum House ,,A.

Donici”,
Donici vilage district of Orhei
Donici village was documented on May 4, 1436 with the name of
“Bezin”. This name comes from the nearby river. The hill part of the
village, however, bore the name "Stanca", which comes from "Stanca
Spring", built in 1806, by Dumitru and Elena Donici, in honor of the
birth of the fabulist "Alexandru Donici". The name "Donici" of the
village, occurs on August 27, 1966, on the occasion of the 160th
anniversary of the birth of the fabulist Alexandru Donici. Also on this
occasion in the Donici family's mansion, where a school was operating,
an exhibition hall was opened, which represented a first step for the
opening of a museum. Starting with 1971, when a new school was built
in the town, the restoration work of the Donici mansion began and on
September 19, 1976 the inauguration of the "Alexandru Donici" House-
Museum, as a branch of the Natal Orhei County History Museum,
began. .
 He was the first of four children of Dimitrie Donici and wife Ileana Lambrino. He
studied at the Saint Petersburg Military Academy, and became a junior lieutenant
in the Russian army. He was of boyar origin. Aleksandr Pushkin lived in the Donici
family house during his exile in 1820-1823. After 1828, Donici assumed the duties
of a civil servant in Chişinău, but later on he chose to resign and in 1835 settled in 
Iași, where most of his literary career unfolded. His chief work, a two-volume book
of fables titled Fabule ("Fables"), was published in Iaşi in 1840; it shows the strong
influence of Ivan Krylov.