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Lev ChessaMoldavian Soviet art critic
Date of Birth: 29.04.1914
Country:  Moldova |
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Life and Education
L.A. Cezza (real name Lev Abramovich Katz) was born in Chisinau, Bessarabia (now Moldova). He graduated from a Romanian gymnasium in Chisinau and went on to study at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at Iași University, graduating in 1939. With the annexation of Bessarabia by the USSR in 1940, he returned to Chisinau where he worked as a teacher.
Career
During World War II, Cezza taught at a secondary school in Georgia. After the war, he began teaching at the Department of General Literature at the Ion Creangă Pedagogical Institute in Chisinau (1945) and at the Chisinau State University (1960). He became a Doctor of Philological Sciences in 1960 and a professor at Chisinau State University.
Publications and Contributions
Cezza authored numerous works in Russian and Moldovan on Moldovan art, classical Moldovan literature, and the works of Alexander Pushkin. His most notable publications include:
- "The Fine Arts of Moldova" (1958)
- "Alexei Alexandrovich Vasiliev" (1959)- "Claudia Semenovna Kobizeva" (1959)
- "Moisei Efimovich Gamburd" (1959)
- "Caragiale's Work" (1961)
- "Fruits of the Tree of Friendship: Essays on Moldovan Art" (1964)
- "Moldovan Painting" (1966)
- "Ion Dorofeevich Zhumsti" (1970)
- "Moments of World Literature" (1970)
Cezza also compiled the posthumous collection of selected poetry by D.Ya. Vetrov (1964). He was an important contributor to Moldovan art and literature and gained recognition for his scholarship.
