Category Archives: History

In 1920, Martha resumed the restoration works guided by Rupolo, the old Venetian architec. In 1921, the young and refined architect George M. Cantacuzino, George Valentin Bibescu’s nephew, was charged to continue them. “In the summer of 1921 – he … Continue reading →

Restoration works were interrupted during the war, after 1916. Martha Bibescu lived at Mogosoaia, but she used to go to Bucharest almost daily and work at the hospital founded by Queen Maria. In November 1916, the palace at Mogosoaia was … Continue reading →

As a landlady of Mogosoaia, Martha Bibescu resided at first in Elchingen Villa, the palace proper being uninhabitable. There, in Marie-Nicole’s chalet, “her aestheticism strove for and succeeded to tame the banality of some rooms lacking any plan or proportion, … Continue reading →

Paying no concern about the palace, yet highly interested in the estate that secured her incomes, Marie-Nicole Darvari was difficult to persuade into selling the whole estate to her first cousin, George Valentin Bibescu: “Martha [Bibescu] spent long years to … Continue reading →

In 1826, Zoe Mavrocordat-Brancoveanu married Gheorghe Dimitrie Bibescu (1802- 1 July 1873), the future ruling prince of Wallachia (1842-1848), and the history of the palace saw a new revival: the Bibescus, the new owners of the estate, held Mogosoaia until 1947. … Continue reading →

After 1714, the whole of Constantin Brancoveanu’s wealth was confiscated, and all inner valuable goods the palace possessed (furniture, carpets, silvery, books, a.s.o.) were dissipated. Years later, prince’s estates and palaces were redeemed from the Turks by the following voivode, … Continue reading →

Born in 1654 as the son of Papa Brancoveanu and Stanca Cantacuzino, the future voivode of Wallachia inherited the great wealth his grandfather, Preda Brancoveanu, had achieved. Seduced by the beauty of Mogosoaia Estate, stretched along the very border of … Continue reading →

The date the works at the new palace have started is not known. On the eastern belvedere, the rotive carved above the porch door states: “This palace, built from the bottom and adorned by the enlightened and anointed prince, H.M. … Continue reading →

Interesting observations about the Brancovan feasts have been put down by Antonio Maria del Chiaro, voivode’s Italian secretary, who described one of the New Year’s banquets he had participated in. Let’s ponder over their opulence through his words: “The courses … Continue reading →

“There are places in which the human patience could easily be rooted and where time seems to stop in order to become concrete in harmonious forms. Mogosoaia is such a place, meant for duration, separated from the present of time … Continue reading →