 This revival of interest was contrasted by conservative views.Poet and essayist Grigore Alexandrescu viewed Vladimirescu as "nearsighted and cruel", while Grigore Lăcusteanu defined the uprising as a "first attempt to murder Romanian aristocracy, so that the nobodies and the churls may take its place".Solomon, though he had served Vladimirescu and remained a Pandur commander, also turned conservative during the 1840s.