The author of the study sketches a portrait of the poet, publicist, translator and folklorist Ion Buzdugan, a prominent poetic and public personality of the interwar Bessarabia in the 20th century. An active presence in the literary life of the period, his name, after the sinister June 28, 1940, both in Romania and in the MSSR, enters the shadows that will last until 1990. With the recirculation of Ion Buzdugan’s entire work in two volumes of „The Writings” published recently in Stiinta publishing house, based on texts published in books and periodicals till 1940 and on the remaining manuscripts in the writer’s archives, the practical phase of the poet’s rediscovery begins. The author of the study believes that in the area of interwar Bessarabia, I. Buzdugan is unique, being far ahead of everyone, including Alexei Mateevici for whom „the destiny was not conducive to overcome his inherent uncertainty and hesitation characteristic of his age”.