Background
Sara Holmsten was the daughter of a farmer in Åland, and the devastation wrought by the Russian army during the Great Nordic War reduced her to beggary.
Sara Holmsten was the daughter of a farmer in Åland, and the devastation wrought by the Russian army during the Great Nordic War reduced her to beggary.
Her autobiography from 1787 is regarded as being among the most historically interesting of contemporary Swedish works of that kind.