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Lovisa von Burghausen, the Glossary

Lovisa von Burghausen (1698 – 20 January 1733) 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.^[1]

Afrosinya

Afrosinya Fedorova (–) was a Finnish woman sold into Russian serfdom after being captured in war. Lovisa von Burghausen and Afrosinya are Russian serfs.

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Anikita Repnin

Prince Anikita Ivanovich Repnin (Аники́та Ива́нович Репни́н, tr.; 1668 – 3 July 1726) was a prominent Russian general during the Great Northern War who superintended the taking of Riga in 1710 and served as the Governor of Livonia from 1719 until his death.

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Annika Svahn

Annika Svahn (fl. 1714) was a Finnish prisoner of war during the Great Northern War. Lovisa von Burghausen and Annika Svahn are 18th-century slaves, prisoners of war held by Russia, Russian serfs, Swedish people of the Great Northern War and Women in 18th-century warfare.

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Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Battle of Poltava

The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War.

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Black Sea slave trade

The Black Sea slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Europe and the Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

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Brigitta Scherzenfeldt

Brigitta Christina Scherzenfeldt, as married Bernow, Lindström, Ziems, and Renat (1684 – 4 April 1736), was a Swedish memoirist and weaving teacher who was captured during the Great Northern War and lived as a slave over 15 years in the Dzungar Khanate in Central Asia. Lovisa von Burghausen and Brigitta Scherzenfeldt are 18th-century Swedish women writers, 18th-century Swedish writers, 18th-century memoirists, 18th-century slaves, people who wrote slave narratives, Swedish people of the Great Northern War, Swedish prisoners of war, Women in 18th-century warfare, Women in war in Sweden and Women memoirists.

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Catherine I of Russia

Catherine I Alekseevna Mikhailova (Ekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya;,; –) was the second wife and Empress consort of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as Empress of Russia, ruling from 1725 until her death in 1727.

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Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718. Lovisa von Burghausen and Charles XII of Sweden are Swedish people of the Great Northern War.

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Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie or Demetrius; Cantemir (Дмитрий Кантемир.; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters.

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Ekaterina Golitsyna

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna, née Cantemir (Екатерина Дмитриевна Голицына; 4 November 1720 - 2 November 1761), was a Russian noblewoman of Moldavian ancestry.

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Estonia under Swedish rule

Estonia under Swedish rule (1561–1710) signifies the period of time when large parts of the country, and after 1645, entire present-day Estonia, were under Swedish rule.

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German Quarter

The German Quarter (Nemetskaya sloboda), also known as the Kukuy Quarter (Кукуйская слобода), was a neighbourhood in the northeast of Moscow, located on the right bank of the Yauza River east of the former Kukuy Creek (hence the name Kukuy Quarter), within the present-day Basmanny District of Moscow.

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Great Northern War

The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Hospodar

Gospodar or hospodar, also gospodin for short version, is a term of Slavic origin, meaning "lord" or "master".

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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List of slaves

Slavery is a social-economic system under which people are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Maria Cantemir

Maria Dmitrievna Cantemirovna (Мария Дмитриевна Кантемир., 1700–1754) was a Romanian noblewoman, Princess of Moldavia, a lady in waiting and salonist, and a mistress of Peter the Great, the Emperor of Russia.

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Medelpad

Medelpad is a historical province or landskap in the north of Sweden.

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Memoir

A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.

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Moldavia

Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.

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Narva

Narva is a municipality and city in Estonia.

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National Archives of Sweden

The National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet, RA) is the official archive of the Swedish government and is responsible for the management of records from Sweden's public authorities.

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Natur & Kultur

Natur & Kultur is a Swedish publishing foundation with head office in Stockholm known for an extensive series of teaching materials.

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Nikolay Sauerweid

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sauerweid (Russian: Николай Александрович Зауервейд; 1836–1866) was a painter from the Russian Empire; son of Alexander SauerweidA.

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Njurunda

Njurunda is a small village in Sundsvall Municipality, located in Västernorrland County, Sweden.

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Nun

A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.

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Pereswetoff-Morath

Pereswetoff-Morath (Пересветов-Мурат or just Пересветов) is a Swedish noble family of Russian origin, one of the so-called bayor families.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Russian Orthodoxy

Russian Orthodoxy (Русское православие) is the theology, religious traditions, and practices related to the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Sabre

A sabre (French: ˈsabʁ, or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Siege of Narva (1704)

The Siege of Narva (Осада Нарвы, Belägringen av Narva), also known as the Second Battle of Narva, was the second Russian siege of Swedish Narva during the Great Northern War from 27 June to 9 August 1704.

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Solikamsk

Solikamsk (Солика́мск, translit, also Соликамскӧй, Sovkamsköy) is a town in Perm Krai, Russia.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Tobolsk

Tobolsk (Тобо́льск) is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Widow conservation

Widow conservation was a practice in Protestant Europe in the early modern age, when the widow of a parish vicar (or sometimes her daughter) would marry her husband's successor to the vicarage to ensure her economic support.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovisa_von_Burghausen

Lovisa von Burghausen, the Glossary

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See also

18th-century Estonian people

18th-century Swedish women writers

18th-century Swedish writers

18th-century memoirists

People from Narva

Prisoners of war held by Russia

Russian serfs

Swedish people of Baltic German descent

Swedish people of the Great Northern War

Swedish prisoners of war

Women in war in Sweden

Women slaves

References