Fortificaţia militară din satul Semeni: „Masa lui Petru cel Mare”
The military fortification from Semeni village: „Petru cel Mare’s table”

Summary/Abstract: The author tries to find a proper answer for the question of the late military entrenchment situated on the bank of river Prut, on the North of Semeni village (Ungheni).According to some historians statements, it represents so called „table” where took place the meeting of the Moldovian reigning D. Cantemir and Russian tzar Petru the Great in 1711 summer, during the well-known Prut Campaign.Such opinion as this one was wrongly and exageratly exploited in the soviet time in order to give rise to some ideological assumptions.Beginning with 2001, the subject was brought again into attention, focusing on the idea of installing a monument in that place.Continuing to investigate and to consult the historical sources of that time, the author makes the conclusion that the meeting place of the two dignitaries was the old settlement Tutora, but the origins of the entrenchment in Semeni could have totally others work circumstances, frequently present in the region in the XVII-XVIII centuries.

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