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Annika Svahn (fl. 1714), was a Finnish prisoner of war during the Great Northern War. The daughter of a vicar, she became the perhaps most well known victim of the abuse suffered by the civilian population in Finland during the Russian occupation Greater Wrath.

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  • Annika Svahn (fl. 1714), was a Finnish prisoner of war during the Great Northern War. The daughter of a vicar, she became the perhaps most well known victim of the abuse suffered by the civilian population in Finland during the Russian occupation Greater Wrath. (en)
  • Annika Svahn, var en finländsk prästdotter och krigsfånge. Hon uppfattas som ett av de mest kända exemplen på offren för de övergrepp som skedde mot civilbefolkningen i Finland under Stora ofredens ryska ockupation. (sv)
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  • Annika Svahn (fl. 1714), was a Finnish prisoner of war during the Great Northern War. The daughter of a vicar, she became the perhaps most well known victim of the abuse suffered by the civilian population in Finland during the Russian occupation Greater Wrath. Annika Svahn was the daughter of the vicar in Joutseno, Benjamin Swahn. After the death of her father in 1701, when she was very young, her mother was allowed to remain in the vicarage as the house keeper of her father's successor, and she worked there as a maid. In midsummer 1710, Svahn was abducted naked from her sauna by a group of Russian soldiers and brought as a slave to Saint Petersburg. In Saint Petersburg, she, as well as a couple of other Finnish females, were given some military training. In 1713, she was re-baptized in the Russian orthodox faith as Uliana. She was given a dragoon uniform and, alongside other Finnish women with a similar history, she was ordered to Finland to assist the Russian army in its conquest of Swedish Finland. She was wounded by a bullet in her thigh outside Borgå in 1714. The same year, she was given the task to act as a messenger for the Russians. She planned to desert, but was captured by the Swedish army on her way. She made her confession for the Swedish army authorities, who documented it. It is not known what happened to her after this. (en)
  • Annika Svahn, var en finländsk prästdotter och krigsfånge. Hon uppfattas som ett av de mest kända exemplen på offren för de övergrepp som skedde mot civilbefolkningen i Finland under Stora ofredens ryska ockupation. Hon var dotter till kyrkoherden i Joutseno, Benjamin Swahn. Fadern hade dött 1701, då hon var mycket ung, men hon och modern hade fått bo kvar i prästgården, modern som hushållerska och hon som piga. Midsommaren 1710 kidnappades Svahn naken ur bastun av en trupp ryska soldater. Hon fördes till Sankt Petersburg, där hon i likhet med flera andra kvinnor från Finland fick en viss militärträning. År 1713 döptes hon till Uliana i den rysk-ortodoxa tron och kläddes i en dragonuniform, för att jämsides ett antal andra finska kvinnor vara till hjälp för den ryska armén i Finland. Hon sårades av en kula utanför Borgå 1714. Svahn gavs samma år i uppgift att föra ett meddelande från ryssarna. På vägen blev hon tillfångatagen av svenska armén, och avgav inför de militär myndigheterna sin berättelse. Det är inte känt vad som hände med henne efter detta, även om det förmodas att man från den svenska arméns sida drog nytta av hennes kunskap. (sv)
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