High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lovisa von Burghausen (1698, Narva, Swedish Estonia – 20 January 1733 Njurunda, Sweden) 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. She was sold as a slave several times before she eventually recovered her freedom, and her story became perhaps the most famous of the many stories of Carolinian fates of this period.