Located in Vrancea county, Romania, in Dragosloveni town, the memorial museum Alexandru Vlahuta is a place full of history and meaning for the Romanian literature. In the span of his stay in Dragosloveni, many great Romanian writers where guests of his home.
The memorial museum was esigned and inaugurated in 1958 when was celebrated the writer's centenary birth. In some rooms the original atmosphere was reconstituited to offer the visitors an overview of life and great activity of Alexandru Vlahuta.
The writer had an impressive life like other writers that had to endure the humiliation of the merchants and boyars who looked with contempt at the young peasants.
Because of poverty, after college, he attends to go in to education and became a teacher. After that he goes to Galati, where he became a lawyer. Here he pleads for prisoners, victims of social injustice. This experience will be later a subject for two novels.
Alexandru Vlahuta was a patriot that evocated in his writings the love for Romania and her beauties that are also comunicated today to the reader with warm enthusiasm.
He died on 19 november 1919.
