The last Russian boyar, Ivan Trubetskoy, gave the property to his daughter Anastasia, the wife of Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, whose daughter Catherine further expanded the estate.
Dimitrie Cantemir describes the Iele as ‘’Nymphs of the air, in love especially with young men’’.
He then worked as a correspondent for the newspaper Tinerimea Moldovei (The Youth of Moldova), a reporter for the National Television of Moldova, and an upper-level curator at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chişinău.
He worked as a scientific consultant at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chişinău (1989–1991), then becoming head of the Department of Religious Affairs in the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs (1991–1994).
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The town was named after Ovid, the Roman poet, based on the claim of Dimitrie Cantemir in his Descriptio Moldaviae that a local lake near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (probably the Dniester Liman itself, on whose eastern shore the town is located) was named in Romanian Lacul Ovidului (Ovid's Lake).