This monograph presents different facets of the work of B.P. Hashdeu: poetry, prose, journalism, philological research, including early works written by him in Russian. A native of northern Bessarabia, he studied at Kamenetz-Podolskaya, and then at the Chisinau regional gymnasium, attended as a volunteer student lectures at Kharkov University, during the Crimean campaign he served as a volunteer cadet in the hussar regiment.