Man of culture Andrei Vartic buried

Man of culture Andrei Vartic has been buried on Friday. He was paid homage by friends, colleagues, politicians. His corpse was taken from St. Teodora Church to the Central Cemetery on Armeneasca street, Info-Prim Neo reports. Alexandru Mosanu, the president of the first Moldovan legislature after independence, has said Andrei Vartic was a man to put the general interest first, manifesting himself both in literature and politics. “Things are bad in Moldova, because the politicians put their personal interests first. Andrei Vartic, my friend and colleague, behaved otherwise. He was a poor man, but rich intellectually. He's part of Moldova's intellectual elite. A genuine encyclopaedist, he researched the the Cucuteni culture and history. He has been extremely energetic and that is why he has burnt earlier than he should have. May God rest him in peace,” Mosanu said. Writer Ion Cuzuioc has said about Andrei Vartic that “he's been a man of select culture and beauty.” “It's regrettable we speak about him in the past tense, that he left us so early, because he still had to do many good things. Thanks to him we returned to the Latin script, to our Romanian language, to the tricolor. It's our duty to cherish his memory.” Writer Vladimir Besleaga has said Andrei Vartic's death is a hard news to bear. “I'll never forget him, he's a select man. He knew to gather people and there are many unknown people at his funeral. This is to prove Vartic has been and will be a select man. Often I used to call him and told him I was enchanted with what he wrote. May God keep him in our memory, in our literature,” said writer Serafim Saka. Actress Raisa Ene regrets many Moldovan personalities have passed away lately. “After Nicolae Sulac our theater has been left, one by one, by Ilie Constantin, Sandri Ion Scurea, aged only 60, 68. Andrei Vartic managed Alexe Mateevici theater for many years. It's a pity he departed.”. Andrei Vartic was born on October 21, 1948, in Danceni village near Chisinau. In 1973 he created the Poetic Theater, which later turned into a center of national liberation from Moldova. He was among the organizers of numerous anti-Soviet and pro-Romanian meetings, ending in the the Great National Assembly of August 1989. From 1990 to 1994 he was a deputy in Moldova's first parliament and an active participant in the creation of the democratic institutions.