Children's Palace

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Let's not forget that there are places that have seen a lot and that we know little about. #everything will be fine
Today, the Children's Palace - Iasi, presented by Florentina.
Cantacuzino Pașcanu Palace is one of the old and important houses in the capital of Moldova, resisting historical trials for 180 years.
The building was built in 1840 by the great lord Dumitrache Cantacuzino-Pașcanu, brother of Mihalache, the owner of the palace (today the Union Museum) at the top of Uliţa Mari called, after 1866, Lăpuşneanu street. The old building had several destinations over time: it was the home of the lord, a residence for kings, a camp for prisoners of war, a boarding school for the education of girls officers, a dormitory for polytechnic students, the Pioneer Palace and now the Children's Palace.
The place was marked in 1855 by the story of the suicide of Dincă - the illegitimate son of the speechwriter Dumitrache Cantacuzino with the maid Maria. After the death of the speechwriter Cucoana Pulcheria Cantacuzino-Pașcanu took the boy under his protection and having no children offered him a chosen education. Going on a trip to Paris, he also took Dinca. There, he fell in love with a Frenchwoman, Clemnentina, who, finding out that he was a slave, treated him with a cold. His request to release her was met by the categorical refusal of Lady Pulcheria, who did not want to release him, loving him as her own child. The old woman without descendants wanted to give her the card of forgiveness (release) and a part of the fortune only when she committed it in life. Dinc took a pistol, shot Clementina, then blew his brains out. the dramatic event that disturbed the Romanian society at that time hastened the process of freeing the gypsies from Moldova and then from Wallachia.
Grinded by remorse, Cucoana Pulcheria Cantacuzino-Pașcanu dedicated the rest of her life to the time and fortune of charities founding the “St. Trinity - Paşcanu “.
After the Union of the Principalities, the palace was sold to Grigore Cozadini, who then passed it on to his brother Dimitrie Cozadini, taking their name.
It was also inhabited by Prince Carol I in 1875 and by the entire royal family of Romania in 1893, at the laying of the foundation stone at the new Palace of the University of Copou and then in 1897, at its inauguration.
During the First World War it was the refuge of Queen Maria and her five children (Elisabeta, Maria, Nicolae, Ileana and Carol). After the war, the Palace was assigned to the School for the Daughters of Officers and was named Regina Maria (1929), the Regina Maria Girls' Home (1933), the Regina Maria Social Protection Institute. In 1944, it became a Romanian camp, then a Soviet prison camp, and in 1945 a dormitory for students of the Polytechnic Institute. Since 1953 it is the Palace of the Pioneers, named after 1989 the Children's Palace. It was restored and regained its original appearance in 2007.