#Exhibit of the Month

The Chișinău Diocesan Girls' School opened its doors on May 3, 1864, addressing a pressing need: in Bessarabia there were no institutions dedicated to the education of clergy's daughters. According to the 1864 circular, teaching was conducted in the Romanian language, a provision applied throughout the diocese. The school's first headmistress was noblewoman Anastasia Dmitrievna Rizo, invited by Archbishop Antonie.
The curriculum, approved by the Ministry of Public Education and the Chișinău Diocese, combined theoretical subjects with practical training. Students studied religion, reading and writing in Romanian, Slavonic, and Russian, arithmetic and mental calculation, world history and geography. The program was complemented by church singing and practical skills such as sewing, embroidery, knitting, as well as household management - baking bread and prosphora, preparing meals and preserves, caring for livestock, and cultivating gardens.
The vignette, created in 1911 at the photographic studio of Z. N. Sumovski in Chișinău, depicts 29 graduates and 13 teachers. At the center are portraits of Bishop Serafim (Ciciagov), headmistress N. R. Mihelson, teacher V. E. Bejerian, and priests F. Ghiliarov and P. Jurikas. A notable figure is Praskovia Vasilievna Cuciurenko, a calligraphy teacher for 37 years, who in 1911 became senior educator and assistant headmistress. For her dedication, she was awarded the gold medal "For Long Service."
By 1911, the school had 648 students across 17 classes. Its library contained 7,414 volumes, including 3,955 for students and 3,459 for teachers. Graduates, often becoming priests' wives or teachers in rural and urban schools, contributed to spreading faith and moral education, strengthening the cultural and spiritual role of the institution.
On the reverse of the vignette is a label reading: "Store and workshop for frames, paintings, mirrors, and window glass, A. D. Kon'gova, Chișinău, Gogol Street no. 37, next to the State Bank."
This unique vignette was donated at the end of 2025 to the National Museum of History of Moldova by the Dadiștian family from Drochia.

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“CONTRAST ARTS”

Ludmila Zastavniţchi-Şeremet

April 23 - May 23, 2021

On the 50th anniversary of the university lecturer at the Faculty of Textiles and Printing from the Technical University of Moldova, Ludmila Zastavniţchi-Şeremet, opens a personal painting exhibition at the National Museum of History of Moldova, the title "CONTRAST ARTS", which includes over 30 works, in the technique of watercolour (2020-2021) and pastel (made in 2011 dedicated to the Cubist style). The works represent the freedom of water colours on canvas or paper, the effect, the fluidity, the spontaneity of colours, the pictorial gesture that inspires the sensation of creating as many works as possible. The author is an admirer of nature, flowers, traditional objects, stylized by shapes, lines, colour, with major impact in the compositions of the works presented.

Visual artist, university lecturer at the Technical University of Moldova (1995-present), member of the Union of Visual Artists of the Republic of Moldova (since 2007), Ludmila Zastavniţchi-Şeremet was born on April 3, 1971, Sângerei, Republic of Moldova. Graduate of the State Pedagogical University "Ion Creangă" Faculty of Fine Arts and Design (1991-1995), master's degree in "Industrial Design", Faculty of Light Industry, UTM (1999-2000). The author released the painting album in 2013 and participated on TV programs with N. Canțer, the TV show "Atelier". Her works are exhibited in the classrooms of the faculty where she works, at private collections in the USA, Germany, Romania, Russia, Moldova.

Frequent participant since 2000 on the group national and international exhibitions of Union of Visual Artists of Moldova, such as "Spring Salons" "Autumn", "Salons of Moldova" Chisinau-Bacau, Romania, "C. Brâncuşi" exhibition centre in Chisinau, Salon of Teachers of Visual Arts in Chisinau Moldova.

First personal painting exhibition was organized at the exhibition centre "C. Brâncuși" Chisinau, R. Moldova (2008), then at the National Library (2008), Municipal Library "B. - P. Hasdeu" in Chisinau (2010), at the Art Gallery "Atrium" Chisinau (2013), French Alliance of Moldova (2015).

Author's nominations "Autumn 2010", "Saloons of Moldova 2012".

The exhibition will be displayed in the lobby on the floor of the National Museum of History of Moldova between April 23 and May 23, 2021.

The opening will be made online on April 23, 2021, at 13.00, on the museum's Facebook page.