Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir, also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian soldier, statesman, and man of letters. He was twice voivode of Moldavia. During his second term, he allied his state with Russia in their war against Moldavia's Ottoman overlords; Russia's defeat forced Cantemir's family into exile and the replacement of the native voivodes by the Greeks phanariots. Cantemir was also a prolific writer, variously a philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. His son Antioch, Russia's ambassador to Great Britain and France and a friend of Montesquieu and Voltaire, would go on to be known as "the father of Russian poetry".
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Birth Place
Romania, Vaslui County
Date of Death
August 21st, 1723
Died Aged
-246
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Maria Cantemir
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Antiochus Kantemir
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Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna
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Constantin Cantemir
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Antioh Cantemir
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Anastasia Ivanovna Trubetskaya
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Ana Bantăș
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Șerban Cantemir
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Casandra Cantacuzino
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