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explanation in the house of official Dumitru, in the presence of witnesses,
about the books from the church: in all, 11 books of the village 38 .
For Eustatie, the penman from the village of huşi (county of suceava)
the job he had during the reign of Antioh Cantemir was important: “I was
with Iamandi, diplomat of Moldavia to Baba, to Iusuf pacha, commander.
the year 7215 December 8 th day, 1706”. on the 30 th of June 1707,
Collection and Gathering of Many Histories, translated into Greek by
Pătraşcă danovici, the third chancellor, it was copied on the expense of
high steward Dimitrii ursachi 39 .
After Antioh Cantemir, the reign was taken over again by Mihai
racoviţă (between july 1707 and october 1709) being replaced by Nicolae
Mavrocordat. When there was another change of reign, dumitraşcu,
nephew of monarch partenie bought a Gospel (Bucureşti, 1693), when
Dimitrie Cantemir had come from Constantinople and reached Bîrlad 40 . on
the 10 th of december 1710, dimitrie cantemir arrived in iaşi.
only a few days before Moldavia started the troubles with the
russian-turkish war, on the 5 th of March 1711, in a moment of rest, priest
Ştefan coţman wrote on a volume by dosoftei, Lives of the Saints (iaşi,
1682–1686): “whenever this would get lost, so people know that it is his
and bought it for two new coins” 41 .
the arrival of tsar peter the Great in Moldavia and the battle from
stănileşti could not remain unnoticed: “since emperor Peter came to
Moldavia and there was a battle with the Turks and dumitraşcu voivode
went with him and the tartars robbed the country. year 7219”. priest Miron
explained more clearly the event: “ever since the people from Moscow
came to Moldavia and fought with the Turks in (stănileşti) on Prut and the
battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and on the fourth day they still did not come
back, the tartars came and robbed Moldavia. And I, priest Miron, was in
the tigheciu, surrounded by tartars, for 12 weeks, in a forest house, until
the Moscow people attacked Braila and fought and then they went back to
their country and a new prince came to the throne, neculae voivode”. It was
around that time that priest dumitru from the village of străoani bought
an Octoih (rîmnic, 1706), “during the days of neculai voivod(e), when
the emperor of Moscow fought with the turks”. on the 15 th of July 1712,
38 Ibidem, p. 358 and 376-380; on Octoih, ms. (1628), f. 118-128, Ms. sl. 657, today
at rAl Bucureşti (BAr, A 1580 (ms. c. Bobulescu, Inscripţii/Inscriptions, iaşi), p. 391-
392/424-425).
39 on Învăţături creştineşti/Christian Learning (Snagov, 1700), white page from the
beginning, c.r.v. 118-119, dublet, from rAl Bucureşti; (Ibidem, p. 379-380).
40 Ibidem, p. 388-389.
41 Ibidem, p. 390.