![]() ![]() The scheme is successful, and Suleiman is intrigued by her. While he was walking past the girls of his harem, she suddenly calls out his name, and then swoons in his arms. The next day, Hürrem, taking in Nigar's words, takes a drastic step to capture the attention of Sultan Suleiman. If she wins his heart, and gives him a son, she will rule the world as a Sultan. However Nigar Kalfa (one of the main Harem leaders) explains to Alexandra that all of them arrived as slaves, and if Alexandra behaves herself and does as she is told, she will be summoned by the Sultan. Wanting to die in order to reunite with her dead family and former fiancé. In the beginning, Alexandra is inconsolable, and miserable in her fate. She bested many rivals who ever came close to Sultan Suleiman. Hürrem was possessive, brutal, territorial, and fierce. Although, eventually she came to truly love Suleiman. Hürrem was a young woman who seduced Sultan Suleiman in order to gain more power in the harem she was abducted into. In the 1520s Crimean Tartars captured her during one of their frequent raids into this region, took her as a slave (first selling her to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major center of the slave trade, then to Istanbul), and she and her friend from her village, Maria, were sent to Sultan Suleiman's harem. ![]() She was the daughter of an Orthodox priest, and her native language was Russian or Ruthenian. ![]()
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