Abstract
The interview with late Mrs. Elisaveta (Safta) Varlam is an interesting proof of the life of the Rosetti family, so much connected to the cultural history of Moldavia. The most important representatives of this family of savants were the writer and historian Radu Rosetti and his son, general Radu R. Rosetti, famous military historian and genealogist. The emotional testimony of general Rosetti’s daughter provides important details on the way of life of the noblemen’s families related to the Rosettești (Știrbey and Brătianu) and sketches the portraits of renowned personages of interwar Romania (Queen Mary of Romania or Nicolae Iorga). From this lavender and musk perfumed evocation two personalities point out, as they marked the destiny of Mrs. Elisaveta Varlam: the one of the father, general Radu R. Rosetti, who had such a tragic destiny, and the one of the aunt Elisa Brătianu, a bright face within the life of the four Rosetti children, left motherless at a young age.