Having a broad and thorough documentation, the critic and literary historian V. Petrescu presents in this article a synthetic portrait of the great voivode Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt, reviewing his decisive contributions to the economic prosperity and cultural flowering of Ţara Moldovei, and defending the country’s independence from the danger presented by The Ottoman Empire. The author’s conclusion is „by what he bequeathed to the medieval culture and civilization, but also to the heritage of the universal spirituality, the epoch of Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt was one of glory, prosperity and brilliance of the creator genius of Romanians”.