Nicolae Milescu

Nikolai Spathari was a Moldavian writer, diplomat and traveler. Milescu spoke nine languages Romanian, Latin, both Attic and Modern Greek, French, German, Turkish, Swedish and Russian. One of his grandsons was the Sptar Yuri Stefanovich, who came to Russia in 1711 with prince Dimitrie Cantemir.

A boyar born in Vaslui, Milescu studied at the Patriarchate College of Istanbul and, after returning to Iai, was appointed Chancellor for the Moldavian Prince Gheorghe tefan. In 16601664, he acted as representative of his country with its Ottoman overlord, and then as envoy to Berlin and Stockholm. He followed Gheorghe tefan in his exile to Stockholm and Szczecin and visited Louis XIVs France in an attempt to get the King to assist him in creating an antiOttoman alliance.

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