The village Viisoara, initially named Draguseni, is mentioned for the first time in 1457. In those times (the times of Stefan cel Mare), village Viisoara (Draguseni) was under the rule of the Chief Magistrate Steful, appointed by Stefan cel Mare. The estate passes then under the rule of Luca Arbore and his mother, Nastasia, appointed by the commissioner Bogdan Voievod. 

 

      On March 05, 1513 village Draguseni and village Ecuseni get under the rule of Grincovici, the Chief Magistrate of Hotin, as a result of sharing with his aunt Marina the inheritance received from his uncle, Steful Pîrcalab. 

 

     On March 20, 1554 Alexandru Voievod, the Ruler of Moldova, assigns more villages among which village Draguseni to the monastery Poborta. 

 

                 In May 1584 Petru Voievod, the Ruler of Moldova, authorizes the „sharing among relatives” to the successors of Luca Arbore and the village Draguseni gets under the rule of Solomon Logofat, while in June 1588 also Petru Voievod  assigns village Draguseni to nun Mariica, the daughter of Luca Arbore. 

 

                In 1647 Iorga Postelnicul buys the Draguseni estate from Zanfira, Mariica’s daughter, Luca Arbore’s niece, and from her son Lupul Pautel. 

 

Since February 1704, the estate Draguseni, on whose territory the village Viisoara is situated, is assigned by Mihail Racovita, the Ruler of Moldova, to the Monastery Golia. 

 

                The name of the village, Viisoara, is officially mentioned for the first time in the State Archives in 1704. According to the Archives data, the village Viisoara had a wooden church, built in 1807 and renovated in 1866. In

 

1817 the village had 300 falci (1 falca is equal to 1,43 ha of land) of hayfields, 180 falci of arable land, 180 falci of pastures. There were 54 peasant households, 4 widows and 14 bachelors, a priest, a psalm reader and a church attendant.  In 1859 the village had 89 houses, 256 men and 250 women. 

 

                In 1861 the church school was opened in which the priest taught the boys. A number of subjects were taught there. In 1866, 34 children were born. 24 people died. In 1872, 54 children were born and 31 people died. The village was growing. In this period there were 70 households that possessed land and 28 that didn’t possess land, 94 houses, 259 men and 250 women, 50 horses, 125 cows, 400 sheep. 

 

               In 1872 cholera breaks out in the village and destroys many human lives. In order to isolate themselves of the epidemic, a part of the inhabitants move to Armas, to the North of Draguseni on the Pîrcalab Pasuta’s estate, which is to be found up to now. In spite of the fact that here came people from Edinet as well, the number of people decreased essentially because of the cholera. There were at the time 93 houses and 243 men, 247 women, 35 horses, 130 cows, 20 sheep, and two cordon teams of border guards.  

 

              In 1888 from the 16th to the 29th of May, over 110 men, who considered that the epidemic of cholera was caused by rodents who were very many, destroyed 21000 families of rodents and covered 23000 holes. The campaign was lead by the scriber Sturza.

 

               In 1891 a school was built. At present it is called the „old school”. In 1894 40 boys and 2 girls studied in the school. It had a budget of 750 rubles, 423 books and a library of 77 books. Later the school developed and the number of pupils increased.

 

 

 

           In the spring of 1900 after a severe drought, 104 families with a number of 403 people were lent 1803 poods (a pood is equal to 16,38 kg) of barley, to be used as seeds and food. In 1904 village Viisoara increased a lot. It had 177 houses, 1197 people, 382 cows, and a water mill belonging to Ion Rusnac. In 1909 the water mill was washed by waters and driven down the Prut . There were 91 children between the age of 8 to 11, among whom 71 attended school at that moment in the village. In 1923 the village had 320 houses, 567 men, 572 women, 3 water mills and a steam mill, a primary school and a mayoralty. It was also in this period that the peasants were given lands in their ownership and the estates decreased. The Property Commission was composed of:

 

1.  Agronomist Covalitov,

    

2. Vasilicov Martian,

    

3. Timofte Spataru,

    

4. Iacob Zborcila, 

    

5. Timofte Belicov. 

    

In the period after 1923 many inhabitants were forced to go onto the other side of the Prut and work for the boyars Balasanu. It was a stagnation period for the village. Some oil mills and  threshing machines  appeared in the village. 57 people were killed in World War II, while 160 became disabled. In 1951 the kindergarten started to function in the village and it was attended by 28 children. The director of the kindergarten was Ursu Nadejda. Educators were Vasilicova Zinaida, Anisim Nadejda, Burlac Fevronia. The kindergarten also had a cook.

 

             THE LEGEND OF THE VILLAGE

 

Long long ago in the place of the present village Viisoara there were other two small villages, Armasu and La Iaz. These two communities placed in the fields without any special signs bear the same names up to now. The two villages existed even in the times when the barbarians were wandering on the territory of the country plundering and killing. Whenever people heard about the attacks of the barbarianss, they used to run at random to save their lives.  Armasul was situated on the very bank of the Prut, while La Iaz was situated much farther and probably they were connected with a rivulet that was flowing from La Iaz to the Prut . Today this rivulet does not exist but its bed can be seen. Situated in the neighborhood the village people intermarried. The attacks happened year after year but especially during the holydays, when much tasty food was cooked. The men came on horses and were wearing masks. During one of the attacks, a sick old woman from the village Armasu, was lying on the brick oven as she could not run or hide. She was lucky not to be found by the men. When the people returned to the village, they were very surprised to find the woman alive, but even more surprised they were to learn that the barbarians who were plundering them were from the neighboring village, their relatives and friends, who seemed weaker and less in number. Then, the villagers of Armasu got whoever and whatever arms they had and went to fight the neighbors. They were furious when they found the stolen things and the setting of accounts was severe. They were completely destroyed. They say that the ones remained alive went to Armasu and in such a way the barbarism was put an end to in the region.

 

Armasu got the name of Draguseni much later and it is mentioned for the first time in 1457 during Stefan cel Mare’s rule.

 

Much time passed; more exactly in 1872 an epidemic broke out and destroyed everything at once. People understood that there was no use to stay in the village. The nearest place less dangerous was the huts and the cellars in the field, where the vineyards of the villagers were on the property of Pasuta Pîrcalab, who permitted the creation of a new village.

 

   The ones who moved to the vineyards remained alive. In such a way the community Viisoara (diminutive from vineyard) appeared bearing its name from the vineyard (vie = gie). The neighboring villages still use the expression „I am going to Gia”.

 

Unfortunately, a part of the villagers could not put up with the boyar Pasuta whose lands they were tending. The misunderstanding continued for years. Once on Iurie’s day a significant number of inhabitants gathered all their belongings, loaded them in the bull carts and went down the Prut in search for a better place to live. Descending down the Prut they found another boyar who permitted them to settle on his lands. Settling in the new place, the people coming from Viisoara gave the name of the village they created also Viisoara, which at present is in Glodeni district. This is proved by the family names people bear there:  Nimerenco, Gurau (Gurau), Gorodenco…