Politică şi patrimoniu. Documente privitoare la aducerea osemintelor lui Dimitrie Cantemir la Iaşi (iunie-august 1935)
Policy and Heritage. Documents concerning the Transportation of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Relics to Iaşi (June-August 1935)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the return in Romania of Dimitrie Cantemir’s remains, in the context of Nicolae Titulescu’s attempts to normalize the relations with the Soviet Union. Predictably, the event was orchestrated for the benefit of national ideology, according to which the repatriation of a hero’s remains reconstituted metaphorically the complete symbolic body of the country. The hero was not a “child” of his homeland. On the contrary, his relationship with the country of origin seems to have been the exact opposite: the hero was the metaphorical parent, who recreated a space, while constantly changing it for all those remaining in the country. After the treaties of Versailles ratified the annexation of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania, the inheritance rhetoric uncovered a growing number of early prophets of United Romania. Brought back to the country long after his death, the hero did not simply return to his origins. He finished, perhaps, his history, but he undoubtedly continued his memory. Moreover, he completed the story of his country with all those years when he did not live there.

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