The Veronica Micle Memorial House in eastern Targu-Neamt is the only museum in the country dedicated to the one that inspired the work of the poet Mihai Eminescu.

Veronica Micle remained in the collective mind more because of the feelings she had towards the Luceafarul / Evening Star of Romanian poetry.

Curator Renata-Gabriela Buzau, from the Neamt National Museum Complex, considers that this reason makes it difficult to approach the personal life of the poetess in a distinct way from her lyrical creation, as long as the two spheres of her existence, interdependent, defined her as one of the representative feminine figures of the Romanian literature, but also as the woman who sincerely loved the full man of the Romanian culture.

Throughout her life, Veronica Micle lived in Targu-Neamt, Iasi and Bucharest, but only in the city at the foot of the Neamt Fortress there is a memorial house dedicated to her, which preserves the memory of the poetess and the atmosphere of the era in which she lived.

"The building located across the street from important buildings, such as the Hospital and the Former Princely School, and where the writer spent the first two years and a half of her life was built in 1834, from the initiative of the Neamt Monastery, being then sold, in the summer of 1850, to Ana Campeanu, the mother of the future poetess, for the sum of 100 gold coins. The woman from northern Nasaud arrived in Targu-Neamt after her husband lost his life during the 1848 Revolution in Transylvania. After the defeat of the revolutionaries by the Austrian and Russian forces, the future being uncertain in Nasaud, the widow chose to move to eastern Moldova, together with her two children, Veronica and Radu, thus ensuring them a feeling of minimal security. According to the sale-purchase deed of the dwelling, the house was an urban-type building, with wooden and stone walls, covered with dranita (thin fir wood planks, larger than a shingle, with which the houses are covered, especially in the mountain areas) and which opened at Ulita Mare through a porch. As far as its partitioning is concerned, the house was composed of four rooms, nine windows, six doors and three stoves with chimney, in the yard there are several annexes (fountain, cellar, stable and barn) and an area with trees, with fence on all the perimeter," the curator said.

Although since 1853 the family settled in Iasi, the house in Targu-Neamt remained the property of Ana Campeanu, being then given as a dowry to her daughter, after her marriage with professor Stefan Micle, in August 1864.

"During the summer, the future muse of Eminescu returned to Targu-Neamt, organizing in the salon of her house literary evenings, among the participants being Mihai Eminescu, after his return from Berlin (1874). Towards the end of her life, the building located on the road leading to the Neamt Fortress was donated by the writer to the Varatec Monastery, serving as a small monastery for the nuns who came to the hospital or for those who arrived in Targu-Neamt in the interest of the monastery. After the death of the poetess (August 4, 1889), the building remained a period in the property of the Neamt monastery, there being the proposal that in the main room to be organized a small museum space, and the other two to keep their destination to host when needed the nuns who arrived in the city," added the curator.

Subsequently, the house was sold to a citizen from Targu-Neamt, Ion Gradinaru, who, unfortunately, did not concern himself with the fate of the goods that belonged to the Micle family, and for this reason most of them were wasted.

Moreover, with the danger that the building would be demolished by the owner, in 1939, Nicolae Iorga, then president of the Historical Monuments Commission, took a stand to save this historical monument.

Steps were also taken at the county level by personalities such as the priest Constantin Matasa, also known as the father of the Neamt archaeology, and professor Dumitru Constantinescu, the founder of the Targu-Neamt Museum of History and Ethnography, for the rescue and transformation of Veronica Micle's house into a memorial museum.

Only in 1982 the objective was reached, the house where the muse of Eminescu lived temporarily passing into the administration of the Neamt County Museum Complex, which initiated the organization of the first permanent exhibition.

It was re-thought and adapted to the new standards in the field of museology in 2010, when the 160th anniversary of the poetess's birth was celebrated.

"The society of the times in which Veronica Micle lived was ruthless with her, but the prejudice related to the way she loved were transmitted from one century to another, reaching to the present. Those who have seen beyond appearances have understood the essential role that the poetess played in the life of Mihai Eminescu, but especially in his lyrical creation. United in eternity, the two lovers remain unparalleled in the present evocations as well, because it is impossible to understand the work of the great national poet independently of the one who inspired him and who influenced his trajectory in terms of lyrics. For this reason, the existence of the Veronica Micle Memorial House of Targu-Neamt is fully justified, the role of the basic exhibition being to outline through the exhibits the complexity of a woman whose beauty, intelligence and sensitivity were quite special, otherwise they would not have conquered the Evening Star of Romanian poetry," said Renata-Gabriela Buzau.

The curator launched an invitation to all those who are passionate about modern classical literature, but especially the work of Mihai Eminescu and the tumultuous love story that marked his existence to visit the Veronica Micle Memorial House in order to discover the intimacy of the house where the muse of the national poet lived and the romantic air of the era when the affective relationship the two had was under the sign of a fulfillment truncated by social conventions.AGERPRES(RO - author: Gabriel Apetrii, editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - editor: Maria Voican)