About the book: 2006 / Seventeen-year-old beauty Maria, daughter of the Moldavian ruler Dmitry Cantemir, was the last love of the aging Peter the Great. The emperor dreamed of an heir to the throne, and if not for the mysterious death of a newborn baby - the son of Mary and Peter - the history of Russia could have gone in a completely different direction... The new novel by the modern writer Z. Chirkova tells the dramatic story of the last love of the Russian Emperor Peter the Great. The author focuses on the life and fate of the beautiful Maria Cantemir (1700-1757), daughter of the Moldavian ruler Dmitry Cantemir.