Dracula - Myth and reality

Vlas The Impaler is one of the fiew Romanian leaders who’s biography can’t be reconstructed without considering the legends. This is because the documents of his time and about him were not so many and the legends have been acknowledged when he was still alive and after his death also.

One of the sons of Mircea the Old was Vlad, called “Dracul”. From 1431 untill 1436, Vlad Dracul lived in Transylvania, at Sighisoara. In 1428-1429 a son of him was born, and was named Mircea, like his father. Not long after, another son was born and he was named as him, Vlad. Vlad, the son of Vlad Dracul appears in the documents of the time at 20 of January 1437.

Vlad the Impaler

The first document he wrote is the letter from 31 of October 1448.Vlad the Impaler became a great leader, a restless fighter for freedom and justice for his contry and the south-eastern Europe, which was hoping him to save them of slavery. For all this part of Europe his name was known and he became a symbol, not for the evil, but for the true hope.