Maria Cantemir
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Maria Dmitrievna Cantemirovna was a princess of Moldavia as the eldest daughter of Dimitrie Cantemir. She later lived in Russia, where she was a lady-in-waiting, salonist, and mistress of Emperor Pete
Portrait by Ivan Nikitin, 1710s–1720s
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.
Maria Cantemir
…Alexeyevna in 1727–1728, and to Empress Anna Ivanovna in 1730–1731. From 1731 onward, she hosted a literary salon in Saint Petersburg. The Swedish slave Lovisa von Burghausen mentions Maria in her autobiography. Burghausen, as the prisoner of Dimitrie Cantemir in 1713–1714, credited Maria and her sister Smaragda Catarina…
Peter I of Russia pacifies his marauding troops after taking Narva in 1704 by Nikolay Sauerweid, 1859
Field-Marshal Anikita I. Repnin
Dimitrie Cantemir