Cantemir's son Antioch (1708--1744) was the Russian ambassador at London and Paris, a friend of Voltaire and Montesquieu, and so influential a poet, satirist, and essayist as to be considered ``the father of Russian poetry''. Another son Constantin (1703--1747) was implicated in the Golitsyn conspiracy against the empress Anna and was exiled to Siberia. Dimitrie's younger daughter Smaragda (1720--1761), reckoned one of the great beauties of _her_ time, was the wife of Prince Dmitriy Mikhailovich Golitsyn and a friend of the empress Elizabeth. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Anna <sep>, B: Elizabeth