Heliade began a career as a civil servant after the "Postelnicie" commissioned him to print the "Official Bulletin", and later climbed through the official hierarchy, eventually serving as "Clucer". This rise coincided with the establishment of the "Regulamentul Organic" regime, inaugurated, upon the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, by an Imperial Russian administration under Pavel Kiselyov. When Kiselyov placed an order with Heliade for the printing of official documents, including the "Regulament", the writer and his family were made prosperous by the sales. Nevertheless, Heliade maintained contacts with the faction of reformist boyars: in 1833, together with Ion Câmpineanu, Iancu Văcărescu, Ioan Voinescu II, Constantin Aristia, Ştefan and Nicolae Golescu, as well as others, he founded the short-lived "Soţietatea Filarmonică" (the Philharmonic Society), which advanced a cultural agenda (and was especially active in raising funds for the National Theater of Wallachia). Aside from its stated cultural goals, "Soţietatea Filarmonică" continued a covert political activity.