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Something wrong?A Moldavian prince who bet his throne on a Russian alliance against the Ottomans in 1711, lost, and spent his exile writing an empire's worth of scholarship - philosophy, history, linguistics, geography, music theory - while his son went on to father Russian poetry.
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Dimitrie Cantemir served twice as voivode of Moldavia, briefly in 1693 and again from 1710 to 1711. During that second term he made the choice that ended his rule: he allied Moldavia with Russia in a war against the Ottoman overlords. Russia's defeat sent Cantemir's family into exile and replaced native voivodes with Greek phanariots for good. In exile he turned prolific, working as philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. His son Antioch became Russia's ambassador to Britain and France, befriended Montesquieu and Voltaire, and earned the title "father of Russian poetry." Cantemir died on 21 August 1723.
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