 During the chaotic pillage of the city, Lovisa was separated from her family and taken captive by a Russian soldier.It was a common practice for individual Russian soldiers and militaries to take civilians captive, whom they sold as slaves, and many of the citizens of Narva, both Swedes and Estonians, were to be sold at the slave markets in Russia 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.Lovisa's parents and sisters were taken captive as prisoners of war and deported to Siberia.