sentences:  He went to Bucharest, Istanbul, Cairo, Naples, Paris (1913–1914), and Switzerland, where he settled for a while, trying to cure his tuberculosis).Istrati's travels were marked by two successive unhappy marriages, a brief return to Romania in 1915 when he tried to earn his living as a pig farmer, and long periods of vagabondage.In 1923 Istrati's story "Kyra Kyralina" (or "Chira Chiralina") was published with a preface by the famous French novelist Romaine Rolland.