The Tudor Arghezi Museum in Târgu Cărbuneşti was established in 2007. Here, personal objects of the poet and his family can be admired, these being donated by Mitzura Arghezi, the poet's daughter, who comes every year to visit the museum, on the occasion of the International Tudor Festival Arghezi. Tudor Arghezi was born on May 21, 1880, in Bucharest, according to his own confession, "through a circumstance of overtaking from Olten" and died on July 14, 1967, being "our greatest poet since Eminescu", as literary critics would declare him at his editorial debut. The poet's father, Nae Theodorescu, born in Craiova, worked in the fields, and the poet's patern...al grandfather, Tudor Cojocaru, who lived 113 years, was born in Cărbuneşti, Gorj , a locality he left as a young man and lived in Craiova. Tudor Cojocaru, inspired by his birthplace, changed his name, becoming Theodor Cărbunescu. Tudor Arghezi is the pseudonym of Ion N. Theodorescu, the poet borrowing his grandfather's first name, and he took the name, as he later testified, from the old name of the Argeş river- Argesis. "I took my name to get out of anonymity," confessed the master, "to distinguish myself from the crowd of Theodores." According to Mitzura Arghezi, she was looking for a name that would "squeal". The pseudonym chosen around 1900 became an official name only on May 9, 1956. The poet always considered himself to be from Oltenia and was connected to Olteni and Oltenia, as his daughter says, through everything he wrote and felt and he was proud of his Gorje roots. His internment in the camp at Târgu Jiu, in 1943, as a consequence of the anti-German pamphlet "Baroane", brought him even closer to the environment to which he felt attached to such an extent that he ordered it like the stone on the grave of himself and his wife, from Mărţişor, to have the mention "originating in Gorj". He always supported his Gorj ancestry saying: "I am strengthened by the shadow of Tudor Vladimirescu, as well as the copia (postava) from which my ancestry emerges in which my father was rocked by my grandmother's leg."
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