Artists

Grégoire Michonze was a Russian-French painter, born in 1902 in Kishinev, Russian Empire. From 1919-1922, Michonze studied at a local art academy where, painting Russian icons, he learned to master the technique of painting with egg tempera. Wikipedia

Alexandru Plamădeală (1888–1940) was a Romanian/Moldovan sculptor. He was the artist responsible for the creation of the Stephen the Great Monument in Chişinău (1927).
He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Alexandru Plamădeală married Olga Suceveanu on September 19, 1923.
He died in Chişinău in 1940.