He was the first of four children of Dimitrie Donici and wife Ileana Lambrino. He studied at the
Saint 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; it shows the strong influence of
Ivan Krylov. He translated the works of
Aleksandr Pushkin and
Antioch Kantemir. == Gallery ==