Alexandru Sahia

Born in Mânăstirea, Călărași County, as the son of a small landowner, he was enrolled in the Craiova Military College, which he deemed "oppressive".

He finished his secondary education in the Saint Sava National College, then started law studies at the University of Bucharest.

He apparently failed to find what he was looking for, and left after only a year to visit the Holy Land.

In 1932, he helped create the proletarian literary journal, Bluze albastre [ro], but it suffered from censorship and low readership.

In 1946, after the Communist takeover, he was promoted as a hero of the working class and the manner of his death enabled the RCP to portray him as being the son of "poor peasants".