Brothers Gherghiev Tomb

Brothers Gherghiev Tomb
Code no. List of Historical Monuments B-IV-m-A-20118.177
Brothers Evloghie and Hristo Gheorghiev were very important tradesmen and bankers, coming from Cârlova, Bulgaria. The first one to cross the Danube in 1837 was Evloghie (1819-1897), a teacher who manages to set up trade houses in Braila, Galatzi and Bucharest and starts leasing estates. He brought his younger brother, Hristo (1824-1872), to coordinate their activities in Bucharest. At one point in history they were the richest men in the country and they started doing charity work promoting education in Romania and in Bulgaria. The sudden death of Hristo determined Evloghie to write a will in 1883 in which he mentioned the wish to have a tomb.
It seems that Mincu used the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna as a model for their tomb. He asked the sculptor Frederick Storck to make the statues of the four evangelists.