 When an Armenian Captain asked the Prince to give Lovisa to him as a wife, she escaped and, on the advice of a fellow Swedish woman employed at the court, sought refuge at the home of an English merchant in the German Quarter of Moscow.The English merchant sent her to Archangelsk to be educated in the Protestant religion and to learn German.After seven weeks, she was reported by a German tailor, arrested by the Russian police and taken back to prince Cantemir.