“lancu Jianu, our most legendary outlaw, was from a lineage of Oltenian boyars. Before being a chief of the rebels, he had been a tax collector and future son-in-law of the boyar Calafeteanu. As the main function of these lords was to collect taxes; and as taxes were often collected two or three times; and as peasants had nowhere to pay them – the most important job of the Phanariot lords was to put them in the punishment, torture. Iancu Jianu, as the tax collector, tried to enforce the law without any abuse and violence. He will not succeed. That’s why he goes to the other side of the barricade. But he does so only after the failure of his tireless efforts to apply the law, to prevent injustice.”