The Hatched by Mihail Sadoveanu

MIHAIL SADOVEANU PORTRAIT ACHIEVED BY CORNELIU BABA

THE NOVEL HAS GOT 16 CHAPTERS AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 1930.

THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN NEAMT AND SUCEAVA COUNTIES. THE CHARACTERS ARE SHEPHERDS FROM MAGURA TARCĂULUI. NECHIFOR LIPAN LEFT IN ORDER TO BUY SHEEP FROM VATRA DORNEI AND HIS APPARITION IS LATE. HIS WIFE VITORIA FEELS THAT SOMETHING WRONG HAPPENED TO HIM AND SHE LEAVES IN ORDER TO LOOK FOR HIM BECAUSE SHE DIDN’T TRUST IN AUTHORITIES SHE HOWEVER ANNOUNCE THEM ABOUT THAT.

Piatra Neamt –Picture taken high up on Cozia Mountain

Piatra Neamt The Town Hall

THE TOWER CLOCK Piatra Neamt Built by Stephen the Great

VITORIA KEEPS SAINTLY ALL THE TRADITIONS AND SHE MENACES HER DAUGHTER MINODORA WITH THROWING HER IN TARCĂU RIVER IF SHE DON’T OBEY THEM.

VITORIA TAKES MINODORA AND LEAVES HER AT VARATEC MONASTERY IN ORDER TO BE SAFETY DURING THE TIME SHE IS LOOKING FOR HER HUSBAND.

VĂRATEC MONASTERY

VITORIA KNOWS FROM VATRA DORNEY COUNTY DEPARTMENT THAT HIS HUSBAND HAS BOUGHT 300 SHEEP, SELLING THEN 100 OF THEM TO SOME MOUNTAIN INHABITANTS.

VITORIA COMES BACK FOLLOWING THE SAME ROUTE HER HUSBAND IS SUPPOSED TO PASSED, ASKING IN THE PUBS ABOUT “THE MAN WITH GREY CAP AND BLACK HORSE” AFTER SABASA VILLAGE, IN SUHA, SHE HAS LOST NECHIFOR’S TRACE.

THE WAY TO SABASA

THE WAY TO TALIENS CRUCE

Taliens’ Cruce, the place where Nichifor was killed

HELPED BY THE DOG “LUPU”, THAT SHE FOUND IN SABASA, VICTORIA DISCOVERED NECHIFOR’S DEAD BODY IN A DEEP HOLE NEAR TALIENS’ CRUCE.

VITORIA RESPECTS ALL THE RITUALS OF BURIAL, ANNOUNCE THE AUTHORITIES, INVITING AT THE BURIAL CEREMONY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS THE TWO KILLERS OF HER HUSBAND, CALISTRAT BOGZA AND ILIE CUTUI.

THE BURIAL CEREMONY MEAL WAS SERVED AT MR THE BURIAL CEREMONY MEAL WAS SERVED AT MR. TOMA’S HOUSE, WITH DISHES WITHOUT MEAT. VITORIA SAYS WHO ARE THE TWO KILLERS AND THE JUSTICE IS MADE BY BOGZA’S DEATH AND CUTUI’S ARRESTING.

Old things from Sabasa

Sadoveanu Memorial House Targu Neamt