 He was a proud homosexual (or bisexual), which did not prevent him from keeping as his concubine a younger woman, commonly referred to as "Domnica" ("Little Lady") or "Mica" ("Little One").Born Alexandra Colanoski, she was born in 1894 to Romanian Poles from Bessarabia, and, according to memoirist Constantin Beldie, had previously been a prostitute at a nightclub.Herself a libertine, Domnica was described by researchers as an androgynous or cross-dressing presence.