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Münchhausen was made a page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and followed his employer to the Russian Empire during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1735 – 1739 ).
He was named a cornet in the Russian cavalry regiment " Brunswick-Cuirassiers " when Anthony Ulrich became Russian generalissimo in 1739.
The next year, he was promoted to lieutenant.
He was stationed in Riga, but participated in two campaigns against the Turks in 1740 and 1741.
When Anthony Ulrich was imprisoned in 1741, Münchhausen remained in the service of the Russian military.
In 1744, he married Jacobine von Dunten at Pernigel () near Dunteshof () in Livonia, and in 1750 he was named a Rittmeister, a cavalry captain.
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