by Karen Nyenhuis | Dec 14, 2024 | Great Northern War
By Unknown author – National Archives of Sweden, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112777804 The Battle of Poltava occurred in what is modern-day Ukraine, although in 1709 it was part of mainland Russia under Peter the Great. I found...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Nov 29, 2024 | Great Northern War
Image: Victory at Narva, 1905, by Gustaf Cederström, National Museum of Sweden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This image, painted two hundred years after the battle, depicts what the surrender of Russian forces to Sweden might have looked like after...
