Vladimir Bodescu
# Vladimir Bodescu

Vladimir Bodescu (4 March 1868, Durleşti village, Russian Empire – 28 November 1941, Gulag, penitentiary No. 4, in Chistopol, TASSR) was a Bessarabian politician and lawyer who was part of the Moldovan Parliament from Bessarabia. He was one of the many victims of Soviet communism.

## Biography

### Education, Sfatul Țării

He was a graduate of the law faculty of Kiev, being a lawyer. He was a magistrate in several localities in Russia, a prosecutor at the General Prosecutor's Office in Chișinău. Member of the Labor Party. He served as Member of the Moldovan Parliament (1917–1918). On 27 March 1918 he voted for the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.

### Victim of Soviet Communism

He was arrested on 10 August 1940, after occupying Bessarabia by the USSR. He died of exhaustion in 1941.

## Gallery

* Moldovan stamp, 1998
