Laskarina Bouboulina 11 May 1771 - 22 May 1825) was a Greek

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 naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence

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 in 1821, and posthumously, an Admiral

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 of the Imperial Russian Navy

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Bouboulina was born in a prison in Constantinople

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; she originated from the Arvanite community of island of Hydra. She was the daughter of Stavrianos Pinotsis, a captain from Hydra island and his wife Skevo. The Ottomans

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 had imprisoned Pinotsis because he had taken part in the failed Orlof Revolution of 1769–1770 against the Ottoman rule.