It is known for certain that the poet's grandfather, on his paternal side, was Ilie Slavici, born in 1782 and died in 1829, and from his marriage to Maria, born in 1783, resulted seven children, including the poet's father, Sava Slavici, born in 1818. Sava is orphaned at an early age and is adopted by Mihai Fercu, the "old father", as he would appear in later memoirs of the writer, who was a leader in the village and had been a "royal citizen" against Napoleon. Bonaparte. "Old Dad" was acquainted with the book because he said at church, during the service, our Creed and Father, and the writer remembers it keeping sacred the dress of his youth: long hair braided in the tail and combed in the bag, hat wide with wide brims, an olive cloth gown with knee-high legs, a long stick with a silver handle and shoes with a large buckle, that is, she dressed in the fashion of the beginning of the century in the city.
