Alexandru Robot is a penname of Alter Rotmann, the poet who was born in Bucarest on January 15th, 1916, in a family of Carol Rotmann, former craftsman who became an office holder, and his wife Toni Israel. In July 1941, at the beginning of the Second World War, he was reported missing, being recruited to the Red Army. He learned about Bessarabia by accident - he met a journalist Al. Terziman in Bucharest, who specialized in launching of some Bessabarian publications, was a friend of the Soviet Union and later died in the Gulag. Terziman invited him to participate in a new publication: Gazeta Basarabiei (Bessarabian newspaper). Al. Robot was 19 years old when he came to Kishinau and took part in the provincial life. It’s difficult to say why this young son of Bucarest, born in a family with commercial interests, came in 1935 to Kishinau, where literary circle was very modest, pressure over Bessarabians caused by problem of Romanian language was quite severe, where nothing that was connected to politics should have any left influences, because it was suspected that Bessarabia was affected by Bolshevism.