Dumitru Matcovschi will be buried in his native village Vadul Rascov of Soldanesti district on June 29. This was the late poet’s wish, writer Ianos Turcanu, who is a family friend, has told IPN.
Those who will want to bid farewell to the poet can do it in the evening of June 27 at Saint Dumitru Church that is situated in Chisinau’s Botanica district. On Friday, June 28, the poet will be taken to his native village, where he will be buried the next day.
“He wanted to be buried at home. It was his wish expressed before death. His wonderful daughters and wife will do as he wanted,” stated Ianos Turcanu.
The poet passed away in the evening of June 26 at the age of 73. Over the last few weeks, he had stayed in the hospital after undergoing brain surgery.
Poet, prose writer, dramatist, publicist and academician Dumitru Matcovschi started to write in 1966 and is the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, prose and plays. He is considered a symbol of the national renaissance movement of Bessarabia.
