 Urechia frequented exiles from both Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), growing close to the Wallachian politico C. A. Rosetti.Having written his debut literary works, some grouped in 1854 under the title "Mozaic de novele, cugetări, piese şi poezii" ("A Mosaic of Novellas, Musings, Plays and Poetry"), he also completed a debut novel, "Coliba Măriucăi" ("Măriuca's Cabin", in 1855).The plot was loosely based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by the American abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, and was adapted to the realities of Romani slavery in Moldavia.