She was the property of Alexei's tutor, Prince Nikifor Vyazemsky, but had originally been a captive from Finland, then a Swedish province, and was thereby a Swedish citizen.
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She was afraid her grandson Peter would be cut out of the line of succession if Alexei was cut out by his father.
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Aid was offered because Charles VI thought Peter capable of murdering his heir as he wrote his cousin, King George I of Great Britain, and because he hoped to have Alexei return to Russia as his puppet.