Studia Humanitatis No. I (XV) / 2023
Cetățuia Hermitage, a Bessarabian foundation set to be revived
Florin Epure The Cetățuia Hermitage, north of Râmnicu Vâlcea, possibly founded by Bessarabian patrons in the 15th–16th centuries, is examined from archaeological, historical and monastic perspectives, with a focus on the controversial site of the assassination of Voivode Radu of Afumați and his son Vlad in 1529, as well as on the stages of the monastery’s foundation and restoration, from Metropolitan Teodosie (1680) to the fresco painted by Gheorghe Tattarescu in 1854.