It is a collection that contains all four works from the theatrical cycle of “Chirițele”: „Chirița în Iași sau Două fete și-o neneacă” (1850); „Chirița în Provinție” (1852); „Cucoana Chirița în voiaj” (1863) and respectively „Chirița în balon” (1874).
Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]) was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia.