„A slujit domniei mele cu dreptate şi cu credinţă”. Câteva consideraţii privitoare la Andrei, hatmanul lui Petru vodă Şchiopul
„He served my reign with justice and faith”. Some considerations regarding Andrei, the hetman of Petru Şchiopul

Summary/Abstract: Many aspects regarding the hetman Andrei are known to a certain extent as, in the last century, both historical contributions and preserved documents clarified some important questions regarding the life and the activity of this boyar who served Petru Şchiopul for many years. Other biographical elements also of some importance, like his origin, the moment and the context of his death, have remained and are likely to stay less well known in the absence of new documentary evidence. Sketching the portrait of a boyar like Andrei, high official in the council of two rulers of Moldavia (Petru Vodă and Aron Vodă) and one of Wallachia (Mihai Viteazul) can contribute to the confirmation or the retouching of the characteristics known about the end of a period in the history of the Romanian principalities. The reigns of either Petru Şchiopul, or Aron Vodă or Mihai Viteazul cannot be analysed and even less understood without knowing those small or great boyars, merchants, creditors. These characters often embodied sometimes by one person, individually and especially together have contributed to a greater or to a lesser extent to the obtaining or to the dissolution of these reigns.

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