Elena Alistar – deputat în Sfatul Ţării, pedagog şi promotoare a portului popular
Elena Alistar – deputy in Sfatul Țării, pedagogue and promoter of the folk dress

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper evokes the personality of Elena Alistar, the single woman deputy in Sfatul Țării [the name of the Bessarabian parliament during 1917-1918] who voted for the union of Bessarabia with the Romanian Kingdom on the 27th of March 1918. She emphasizes her activity during the interwar period, as director of the Eparchial Girls’ School from Chișinău, as well as her fate after 1940, when she sought refuge in Romania. Using information collected from the former graduates of the Eparchial School and unpublished manuscripts, the researcher clarifies some data from the biography of Elena Alistar, data that were wrongly published in different papers. In the meantime, she emphasizes the contribution of Elena Alistar to promoting the Romanian folk dress in Bessarabia. During the interwar period, the holiday costume was worn by the Bessarabian intellectuals on different occasions, as an expression of their Romanian identity. This information is a valuable source for the study of the significances of the folk dress in the Bessarabian society from that time, eventually, for identifying the peculiarities of the costumes worn then.

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