M S’s Reviews > Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times > Status Update

was surprised to learn that Vlad Dracula and his brother Radu were raised as political hostages in the court of Sultan Murad II, alongside Mehmed II (the future Conqueror). They received an elite education and became fluent in Ottoman Turkish(a skill that would later serve Vlad well during his 1462 night attack against the ottomans)