Education
He studied at the Saint St. Petersburg Military Academy, and became a junior lieutenant in the Russian army.
He studied at the Saint St. Petersburg Military Academy, and became a junior lieutenant in the Russian army.
He was of boyar origin. Aleksandr Pushkin lived in the Donici family house during his exile in 1820-1823. After 1828, Donici assumed the duties of a civil servant in Chişinău, but later on he chose to resign and in 1835 settled in Iași, where most of his literary career unfolded.
His chief work, a two-volume book of fables titled Fabule ("Fables"), was published in Iaşi in 1840.
lieutenant shows the strong influence of Ivan Krylov. He translated the works of Aleksandr Pushkin and Antioch Kantemir.