 Lovisa took contact with a Swedish woman, who advised her to contact the Swedish lieutenant Magnus Vilhelm Sprengtporten; Sprengtporten had been taken prisoner at Narva the same time as Lovisa, escaped, been taken prisoner at the Battle of Poltava, lead a rebellion at Kazan and been imprisoned for seventeen months.Lovisa was later to say about him that he was her "greatest saviour next to God".One day, she left the house of the Turk to buy silk at the market, accompanied by a guard.