A TikToker has revealed she is directly descended from one of the 20th century’s most brutal warlords, dubbed “the Bloody Baron” — but she says she’d rather drink matcha than reclaim her historic throne.
Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg, 29, an MBA student in Spain, often shares fun posts of her life as a matcha-sipping millennial on TikTok.
But her family tree has been been watered with the blood of countless suspected communists.
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, a violent Russian nationalist whose savagery in battle in the 1910s and ’20s earned him the nicknames the “God of War” and “the Mad Baron.”
A military leader on the losing side in Russia’s 1917 communist revolution, Ungern later invaded Mongolia and established a kingdom with the help of soldiers loyal to the tsar — along with mercenaries from Japan and Mongolia.
He attempted to form a new Mongol empire that could march on Moscow and overthrow the Soviet government, while hunting down and exterminating anyone suspected of being a red communist.
For Leonie, more than a century on from Ungern’s 1921 execution by the Bolsheviks, sharing his surname has become something of a curse.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/world-news/mad-barons-descendent-turns-into-a-matcha-sipping-tiktok-influencer/
Admitting the “burden” that comes with her “unusual surname,” Leonie explained that “the Mad Baron” is far from her only prominent relative.
“If a family is almost 1,000 years old, there is a chance that one or the other is going to … have done negative things throughout history,” Leonie told The Post.
“We were always raised in a very humble way … I’ve been working since I was 18,” she said.
“It’s not like I have this super-glamorous life and I’m a baroness … No, it’s just a name that in that context doesn’t mean anything,” she said.
Leonie admits she “didn’t know much” about Ungern growing up, but after posting TikToks and vlogs for her friends, her link to one of the early 20th century’s bloodiest conquests went viral.
The Mad Baron is credited by some historians of helping to liberate Mongolia from Chinese occupation, but his madness and brutality were also legend.
He became obsessed with Eastern religions, and his forces were less an army than a heavily armed cult.
In addition to hating communists, he was also virulently antisemitic and he devised sadistic tortures and painful deaths for his enemies — and even his own followers who disobeyed him.
He was said to have burned victims alive, left them out in the cold to be torn apart by wolves, crucified them by rusty nails and forcing them to stay in treetops until they fell out and were shot, or died of exposure.
“All these people telling me I should reclaim the throne to Mongolia but I’m literally just a girl who drinks matcha,” Leonie quipped in one TikTok video which racked up more than 2 million views since being posted on June 30.
“I posted that video and I went to sleep,” Leonie told The Post. “And the next day I woke up and I had a million views, which for me was surreal.”
While much of the attention was lighthearted, some of it was extreme.
That included far-right fanatics aligned with Roman’s ultra-nationalist ideology, and those condemning her as guilty by association for Ungern’s crimes.
“I feel like I’m a case study on how a viral video can bring unwanted attention from ideologies that I personally don’t align with,” she said.
“I’ve gotten a lot of comments … a lot of sexism … racism,” she added.
Despite the “scary” experience, Leonie still carries her name with “pride and honor,” because of her “amazing family members,” she said.
“My great-grandparents got murdered by the Nazis for helping Jews flee the country,” she said, adding how “shocking” and “hurtful” it was to see her name taken up as a cause by extremists.
Leonie’s video also got comments from users in Mongolia, where attitudes toward Ungern are mixed.
“A lot of Mongolians say, ‘In our home, [Ungern’s] a hero.’ There are some that say, ‘Without [Ungern], we would possibly belong to China right now,'” she said.
“On the other hand, there are also a lot of Mongolians that say, he was brutal … an outsider … He had no business to even hold that much power.”
Leonie wants to use the attention her videos have brought on Ungern to delve into her family’s archives and learn more.
“He’s such a complex historical figure that you can’t just box him up and make him out to be one person,” she said.
“He’s more complex than that.”
>>510322793 (OP)Those boobs lay nicely on her chest.
>>510322793 (OP)There are a lot of people that can probably claim this too to be fair
Those guys raped and fucked a lot
Ghengis Khan impregnated over a thousand bitches. Every place he went, he demanded concubines. There are probably descendants of him in every Chinatown in the States.
>>510322825All families are a 1,000 years old you dumb slut
>>510322793 (OP)She's based and clearly feels pride about it.
>>510323788>88Yes anon,go get her tiger
>>510323788Here anon
https://www.tiktok.com/@leonievungern
We're all descendants of warlords and kings.
It's just math.
The global population of the world during Genghis Khan's time was 350 million to 400 million.
We're now at 8 billion.
>>510322793 (OP)>we wuzz mango and shyt>muh mango empire Mongolos went to russia looking for turk who escaped their shitter cleaning job in mongolia. Russia refused to give back the turk slaves and it started a war. Therr was no war for empire
Wartime is so based. Men can just carve off a chunk of the empire during the confusion. This guy lived the dream.
>>510322793 (OP)>Roman von Ungern-SternbergOne of the most based men who ever lived.
Is 29 years old
>IM JUST A GUUURL! THIHIHI!
>>510322793 (OP)She's a woman. What would she know about politics? What are you even bitching about?
bump for interesting read
>>510322793 (OP)stupid cunt doesnt know that she is far from anything to do with Genghis Khan
Her and her kike commie grandfather can burn in hell
>>510324226This is the video in question: https://www.tiktok.com/@leonievungern/video/7520669822871457046
>>510322896She kind of looks like Bonnie Blue
>berg
>Mongolian
This is like the "Chinese" Zionists just being deported bourgeois Chinese
China should just fucking execute them
>>510322793 (OP)>sternbergwho traced her ancestry back a 100 years?
>>510322793 (OP)>I'm just a girlyou haven't been a girl for like 15 years you old hag
>Because of my past, I will choose to be a mindless consumer and die alone, having never truly loved because men only want one thing and it's hecking disgusting. How could men do this to me?
"beasts, men and gods" by ferdinand ossendowski is a crazy fucking book about the soviet civil war/ww1 and prominently features an eyewitness account of ulaan batar during the time of the mad baron. highly recommended. fun read. would be a great movie
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