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.


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