MC Rewatch. Episode 1.
I got to the introduction of Alexandra.
Promptly, it must be said that she wasn't merely a captive of war or in a battle between the Crimean Tatars and Russian or Polish forces. In no way so. She was a victim of slave raids. At that point in time, Crimean Khanate was a place of poor ability for agriculture and little ability to develop their own riches. Following the example of slave trade by Italian controlled cities, Crimean Khanate under Ottoman Empire's control and influence was majorly supported by slave trade: which didn't come out of nowhere. Regular raids were conducted into the territories of Eastern Europe and the people capture were brought in slave caravans to the main trade point - Kaffa, modern Feodosia, where their fate was decided.
At the later time the scene of Alexandra's capture can be seen - and it is rather realistic in that there's little mercy, but for those who can be sold and used for profit. Those slave raids were conducted with goal of pillaging and slave gathering, and it is shown in how her father - a older man and a priest would not be seen as an obedient and valuable slave, and in the same train of thought her mother and sister too: one too old for the market, the other too small and fragile, might not even survive until they reach Kaffa. Emphatically, it must be understood that at this point, Alexandra rightfully and reasonably perceives both the Tatars and Ottomans to be a scourge of evil - to her, to the people of her time, they were one. The raids of Crimean Khanate only stopped in 18th century when the Crimea itself and most surrounding territories were conquered by the Russian Empire during Romanov dynasty's ruler Catherine the Great, thus crushing this trade route and the ability of Ottoman empire to continue profiting off of slaves torn from their homes in Eastern Europe. Alexandra's anger is reasonable and rightful in this situation, even if she acted very recklessly and in endangerment to herself and other enslaved girls being delivered by ship to Istanbul.
