![]() Her memoirs were not addressed to a wider public, but were to be read only by her children, so that they might realize how mistaken they had been in judging their mother. ![]() It was here that she began to write her memoirs, addressing them expressly to her children, who were to learn and understand the role that she, Elena Hartulari, had played in the amassing of a huge fortune and the building of a social status. After numerous conflicts, Elena gave up the patrimony to her children and withdrew to live alone on one of the family’s estates, with only a few servants to care for her in her old age. Their three children were displeased at their father’s decision, and joined together to contest, by various methods, including in court, their mother’s right to administer the family inheritance. By the testament of her husband, Iorgu Hartulari, who died in 1849, Elena was his executor and inherited his entire estate. ![]() ![]() Feeling the approach of old age, hounded by her own children in interminable court cases, weary after a difficult marriage to an unfaithful husband, Elena Hartulari (née Plitos) made up her mind to write her memoirs, setting down on paper the unhappy course of her life. ![]()
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