Laskarina Bouboulina

Laskarina Bouboulina ,May 1771 May 1825 was a Greek naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and an Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

Bouboulina was born in a prison in Constantinople she originated from the Arvanite community of the island of Hydra. She was the daughter of Stavrianos Pinotsis, a captain from Hydra island, and his wife Skevo. The Ottomans had imprisoned Pinotsis for his part in the failed Orlof Revolution of 17691770 against the Ottoman rule. During one of her mothers visits she was born. Her father died soon afterward and the mother and child returned to Hydra. They moved to the island of Spetses four years later when her mother married Dimitrios LazarouOrlof. Bouboulina had eight halfsiblings.

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