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The waivode Matei Basarab's personality had an effect on all territories, being, first of all, a good manager in the administration of the country's human and material resources, which lead to the fact that Matei Basarab's reign was an epoch of military virtues revivification, after Mihai Viteazu's epic. The proof of that is the clever policy of keeping away the Ottoman Empire from the boundaries of the country, as well as offering support to all those who fought against The Gate.
Matei Basarab's epoch would be one of cultural flowering, of starting an artistic school, without whom the Brancoveanu “explosion” whould have not been possible. He was a real Mecena, protector of the culture, an orthodoxism supporter, fighting for the unadulterated keeping of orthodox tradition. All these features of his personality would contribute to sovereign's recognition as the biggest founder of romanian people from the middle age, a true protector of the church. He built over 30 churches and restored many other, not only in the country, but also at Athos Mountain and south of the Danube, at Vidin and Sistov.
 
Matei Basarab and lady Elina built in Targoviste the Sf. Nicolae (Sf.-tii Imparati) church in 1650, and in 1653 the Sf. Nicolae-Andronesti church. The metropolitan church of Tara Romaneasca, whose headquarters were in Targoviste since Neagoe Basarab, benefits, among fiscal immunity, from the ruler's support for restoring the church.  
The boyers, especially the ones in the princely council, follow the ruler's footsteps: Buzinca builds in 1639 a church that, after years, will bear his name, Udistre Nasturel, the Fair church(1653), Varzaru, a church with the same name. Among the boyer's houses constructed in this period are the ones built by Socol Cornateanu in Razvad and Cornatel. The inhabitants of Targoviste built at Valea Voievozilor (probable in 1635) a monumental stone cross, that protected them from wine-growers's abuses and acquited them from paying some of the wine taxes. Other stones – Razvad, Cornatelu, The White Church in Targoviste – built in the same period, reflect the craftsmanship of the stone handicraftsmen.
At The Princely Court in Targoviste works of restoration of the princely houses were initiated, as well as works of building new constructions, like the bathrooms and doubling of the precincts wall. Other monuments in the country suffered such interventions, which reflects the care of conserving the past.
The waivode payed a special attention to organizing the army, the number of soldiers reaching the value of 40.000. At the same time Matei Basarab ordered the building of a new fortification and of a defensive system, “Santul Cetatii”.
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