Ascendența paternă a mareșalului Alexandru Averescu
The Paternal Lineage of Marshal Alexandru Averescu

Summary/Abstract: The historical sources regarding Marshal Alexandru Averescu’s patrilineal descent are scarce and not all accurate. The current study argues that the allegations according to which Constantin Averescu, the Marshal’s father, came from Bessarabia and after his studies in Iași became an officer in the Russian army which he later left for political reasons and then became a teacher (a primary school one) in Tg. Frumos, are false. Archived documents prove that Constantin Averescu, the marshal’s father, was a primary school teacher in Botoșani (1845); in Târgușor-Podul Lung in Iași (1846-1849; 1850-1851). At the time of the reunion of the southern Bessarabian counties of Cahul, Bolgrad and Ismail with Moldova, Constantin Averescu’s family was in Ismail. It is here where, in 1859, his son Alexandru was born, the future Marshal Alexandru Averescu. From April 1870 to September 1875, Constantin Averescu is documented as a school teacher in Babele, near the town of Ismail (1870; 1874-1875); Doluchioi (1st September 1870 – 22nd May 1871), Enichioi (January 1873 – May 1874) and Cairaclia (15th September 1875 – 1878 ?). After the restoration of the Tsarist administration in Southern Bessarabia, 1878, C. Averescu worked as a teacher between 1881-1883 at the school in the commune of Holboca, the hamlet of Ruseni, the district of Braniștea, the county of Iași. It is important to note that there is no evidence of a student named Alexandru Averescu in the school records of the schools in Southern Bessarabia where Constantin Averescu was a teacher. We can therefore infer that the son stayed with his mom, Casuca, who was a midwife, according to the historian Petre Otu. She must have had a stable job in that part of Bessarabia, where the future soldier had the opportunity to attend a Russian school, language that General Alexandru Averescu spoke fluently, according to Queen Mary’s statement.

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