Iron Blood: 300 Years of the Dmitri Kantemir Dynasty

In the course of history, Prince Dmitri Kantemir—also the Prince of Moldavia, and the Russian Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial Chancellor to Peter the Great of Russia—lived in forced exile for 22 years. His children were prominent in Russian history: Antioch Kantemir became Russia's first satirist and Maria Kantemir was the last love of Peter the Great. Centuries later, American Ella Kantemir, researching her ancestry, makes a startling discovery: her father was hunted by the KGB; Kantemir Palaces were confiscated; a stolen heirloom is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Aside from missing castles, art, jewels and land, Ella discovered that she had a living sister in Azerbaijan—and who shares her same name! And, that her own true identity is that of a Princess: “Her Serene Highness Eleonora Borisovna Kantemir.” What other secrets did the Kantemir dynasty harbor? IRON BLOOD chronicles 300 years of the Kantemir's intriguing history.