Dimitrie Cantemir
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Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir, also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia. During his second term, he allied his stat
Portrait from the first edition of the Descriptio Moldaviae, 1716
In Ottoman dress
Portrait engraving, about 1710
On the 100 Transnistrian ruble note
Maria Cantemir
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Maria Dmitrievna Cantemirovna was a princess of Moldavia as the eldest daughter of Dimitrie Cantemir. She later lived in Russia, where she was a lady-in-waiting, salonist, and mistress of Emperor Pete
Dimitrie Cantemir
…in 1699, and to Princess Anastasiya Trubetskaya (1700–1755) in 1717. Cantemir's children were rather prominent in Russian history. His elder daughter Maria Cantemir (1700–1754) so attracted Peter the Great that he allegedly planned to divorce his wife Catherine to be with her. Upon Catherine's own ascension to the…
Portrait by Ivan Nikitin, 1710s–1720s