Alistar was born on 1 June 1873 in Vaisal commune, at the time in Ismail County, Romania (now in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine). According to some historical sources, she was of Bessarabian origin. She was born in a family of priest Vasile Bălan. Her mother was Elisabeta Bălan.[4][5] She graduated from primary school of Congaz of Cahul County, and then, attended the Chișinău Eparchial School. There she met the young theologian Dumitru Alistar. They married. After a while, her husband became a priest and she followed him. Since 1890, she worked as a teacher in the such villages as Văleni, Roșu, Zîrnești, Cahul, Rezeni, and Chișinău.[4] After her husband's death, she was encouraged by the journalist Mihai Vântu to leave for Iași, Romania. In 1909–1916, she attended the Medical Faculty of the University of Iași.[6] She was arrested for "nationalistic activity" together with the members of Daniel Ciugureanu's group. The group has claimed the need for forced liberation of Bessarabia from the Russian influence.[7] In 1916, she was recruited by the army as a military doctor. She continued to practice medicine at Costiujeni Hospital near Chișinău.
She was the member of the Moldavian National Party and was elected as an MP from the Cetatea Albă County for the Sfatul Țării.[8][9] She was one of the two women elected as MP, and actively took part in the political events that led to Bessarabia's unification with Romania. On 27 March 1918, she voted for the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. The other woman MP, Nadejda Grinfeld, was shot by the Romanian Army for opposing such an unification.
Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), 27 June 2008 (page 16)
Alexandru Chiriac. Membrii Sfatului Ţării. 1917–1918. Dicţionar, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, București, 2001.
External links
Unica femeie deputat din Sfatul Ţării. Elena ALISTAR, un exemplu de conştiinţă politică Archived 3 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
Elena Alistar
Nataşa PETEU: Unica femeie deputat din Sfatul Ţării: Elena ALISTAR, un exemplu de conştiinţă politică Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria
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^"Liceul Alistar". Archived from the original on 7 February 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
^Ecaterina Țarălungă, Enciclopedia identității românești, Editura Litera, 2011, ISBN 978-606-600-246-2.
^ a b"Natașa Peteu: Unica femeie deputat din Sfatul Țării: Elena Alistar, un exemplu de conștiință politică". Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
^Ion Gherman: Românii din jurul României. Editura Vremea 2003. p. 449. ISBN 9789736450839
^Andrei Brezianu; Vlad Spânu (26 May 2010). The A to Z of Moldova. Scarecrow Press. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-1-4616-7203-6.
^Mariana Hausleitner: Deutsche und Juden in Bessarabien, 1814–1941: zur Minderheitenpolitik Russlands und Grossrumäniens. IKGS Verlag, 2005. p. 54. ISBN 9783980888387
^Ioan Răducea, "Românii din Bugeac" Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Revista română, Anul X, nr. 2 (36), iunie 2004.
^Iurie Colesnic: Femei din Moldova: enciclopedie. Museum, 2000. p. 12. ISBN 9789975905428
^Iurie Colesnic, Basarabia necunoscută. Articolul: Elena Alistar. Ed. Universitas, Chișinău, 1993, pp. 202–207. ISBN 9789975905503
^Iurie Colesnic: Femei din Moldova: enciclopedie. Museum, 2000. p. 15. ISBN 9789975905428
^Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi: Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press, 2006. p. 118.9. ISBN 9789637326394
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^Ioan Lăcustă: De la o unire la alta: memorie sau memorialiști 1859–1918. Editura Albatros, 2005. p. 257. ISBN 9789732410868
^Bejan, Vlad, Românii din sudul Basarabiei, Editura Fundației "Axis", Iași 1998, pp. 89–90