Viata unui om venerabil si de mare cinste, Dumitru Monasterschi, fiul Ucrainei si al Romaniei deopotriva, asa cum e povestita de fiica sa, distinsa Olga Zugravescu, este o autentica „saga" a unui european din Rasaritul continentului; istoria sa personala ne poarta din Podolia si Siberia pana in Basarabia si Vrancea sau pana la Bucuresti - in primitoarea casa a ginerelui domnului Monasterschi, care se intampla sa fie colegul meu de Academie, profesorul Dorel Zugravescu - si ea ne cuprinde intr-un vartej pe care scrisul Olgai Zugravescu il sugereaza remarcabil. Sunt pagini in care lumea este privita cu ochi de copil si inteleasa cu mintea unui intelept. Din Ucraina natala, care aici este un univers de margini de imparatii, cu amestecul sau etnic unde stateau alaturi ucraineni, rusi, polonezi, cazaci, armeni, evrei, nemti si romani, pana in Siberia, la hotarele Chinei si la Pacific, mai apoi peste Nistru in Basarabia romaneasca, palpita in paginile acestea o umanitate vie si colorata. Cea a unei gigantice Euroasii de la inceputul veacului ce nu demult s-a incheiat, cu obiceiuri pitoresti, cu oameni obisnuiti si situatii exceptionale (...)--Asociația Generală a Inginerilor din România, book presentation
The life of a venerable and honorable man, Dumitru Monasterschi, son of Ukraine and Romania alike, as told by his daughter, distinguished Olga Zugravescu, is a real "saga" of a European from the East of the continent; his personal history takes us from Podolia and Siberia to Bessarabia and Vrancea or to Bucharest - in the welcoming house of Mr. Monasterschi's son-in-law, who happens to be my Academy colleague, Professor Dorel Zugravescu - and she embraces us in a whirlwind that Olgai Zugravescu's writing suggests. There are pages in which the world is viewed with the eyes of a child and understood with the mind of a sage, from his native Ukraine, which here is a universe of emperors' borders, with its ethnic mixture where Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Cossacks, Armenians stood. , Jews, Germans and Romanians, up to Siberia, on the borders of China and the Pacific, then across the Dniester in Romanian Bessarabia, a lively and colorful humanity throbs in these pages. of a gigantic Eurasian from the beginning of the century that recently ended, with picturesque customs, with ordinary people and exceptional situations (...)--General Association of Romanian Engineers, book presentation
