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Johan Gustaf Renat
Johan Gustaf Renat was a Swedish artillery officer captured by the Russians at Poltava in 1709 and taken to Siberia. Captured again by the Dzungars in 1716, he spent nearly twenty years among them, teaching them to cast cannon and to manufacture other goods. He returned to Sweden in 1734 with maps of Dzungaria and Central Asia that were valuable to European geographers.
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