Biserica Sfinții Atanasie și Chiril din Iași, cu „filia” biserica „Vulpe” și rolul familiei Burada în viața culturală a Iașilor, în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea
CHURCH OF SAINTS ATHANASIUS AND CYRIL OF IASI, WITH THE "BRANCH" CHURCH "VULPE" AND THE ROLE OF THE BURADA FAMILY IN THE CULTURAL LIFE OF IAȘI, IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The church „St. Atanasie and Chiril” from Iași, with the „branch” The „Fox” Church was built in the 15th century XVIII, to an Orthodox patriarch Athanasius, in the time of the Moldavian prince Ștefan Petriceicu (1672 - 1674), as stated by the historian Gh. Ghibănescu. The place of worship served as the chapel of the new Royal Court at the end of the century XVIII, during the reign of Alexandru Callimachi (1795 - 1799), when the royal residence moved to the old building of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the immediate vicinity of the church, due to a large fire.The Burada family, originally from Odobești - Vrancea County, played an extremely important role in Romanian culture, in the second half of the 19th century. Thus, the vornic Tudorachi Burada was involved in cultural life and religious activities in the capital of Moldavia, being the epitrope of the „Fox” Church, and contributed to the support of the first church music choir founded by Aga Evdochim Ianov, in 1854. Maria Burada, his wife Tudorachi Burada, the daughter of the tenant Ioan Isăcescu, arranged and ran a girls' boarding house in Iași, being also the first woman from Moldova to translate plays.

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