Lovisa von Burghausen
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Lovisa von Burghausen was a Swedish memoirist who became famous for her story about her time in captivity as a slave in Russia after being taken prisoner by the Russians during the Great Northern War.
Peter I of Russia pacifies his marauding troops after taking Narva in 1704 by Nikolay Sauerweid, 1859
Field-Marshal Anikita I. Repnin
Dimitrie Cantemir
Afrosinya
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Afrosinya Fedorova was a Finnish woman sold into Russian serfdom after being captured in war. She became the concubine of Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, son and heir of Peter the Great and fle
Lovisa von Burghausen
…Persia, and the Ottoman Empire, and among the others taken captive this way during the war the future Empress Catherine I of Russia and, possibly, Yefrosinya Fedorov. Von Burghausen's parents and sisters were taken captive as prisoners of war and deported to Siberia. On the way to the Russian camp, another soldier…
Tsarevitch Alexei Petrovich in 1710–1715.