Aishet, the daughter of a Circassian prince, whose noble estate was plundered by the Turks, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. At the end of the 17th century, the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Count de Ferriol, bought the girl from an Istanbul slave trader, who took her to France. There, the young Circassian received an appropriate upbringing, her name was changed to Aissa, at baptism she was named Charlotte-Elizabeth. The fate of Aishet, her charisma, talent, beauty and morality, amazing for the French reality of the 18th century, aroused great interest among high-ranking nobles and writers. The image of a beautiful Circassian woman found artistic embodiment in French, English, Russian, Georgian and Adyghe literature.
