Însemnări din "Jurnalul de călătorie în Occident" al boierului moldovean Iancu Prăjescu
Some Notes from "A Travel Journey to the Western World" of the Moldavian Noble Iancu Prăjescu

Summary/Abstract: The identification, in the private collection of Nicolae Vasilescu-Capsali, from Bucharest, of several new fragments from „A Travel Journal to the Western World”, of the Moldavian noble Iancu Prăjescu, dating from 1857, 1860, 1862, 1864, 1867, adds some more parts to an interesting travel journal, from the period comprised between 1846 and 1869, through various towns, resorts and lands of Europe. The journal belongs to the literary genre of memoirs written during the XIXth century and it reveals the waz a member of the Moldavian nobility, still on the way towards modernization, perceived various aspects of the European culture.

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