POLITICS

POLITICS

GREAT NORTERN WAR

Great Nortern War is about Peter who want made a temporary peace with the Ottoman Empire that allowed him to keep the captured fort of Azov.He sought to get control of the Baltic Sea,which had been taken by Sweden a half-century earlier.He declared war on Sweden that time led by King Charles XII.

Peter 1 of Russia pacifies his marauding troops after taking Narva in 1704

Russia turned out to be ill-prepared to attacks the Swedens,and their first attempt at seizing the Baltic coast ended in disaster at warfare at Narva in 1700.In the conflict,the forces of Charles XII used a blinding snowstorm to their advantages.After the warfare,Charles XII decide to concerate his forces against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and he give Peter I time to reorganize the Russian Army.

Peter founded the city of Saint Petersburg,which in Ingemanland in 1703.He forbade the building of stone edifies outside Saint Petersburg,which he intended to become Russia's capital.So taht all the stonemasons could participates in the construction of the new city and he took Martha Skayronskaya as a mistress.

Peter I in warfare of Poltava

Charles XII refused to retreat to Poland or back to Sweden,instead invading Ukraine.Peter withdrew his army southward,destroying any poverty that could assint the Swedes along the way.The Swedens army was forced to halt its advance in the winter of 1708-1709.In the summer of 1709,they nevertheless resumed their effort to capture Ukraine.

Peter receive support from Balkan alies,attacked the Ottoman Empire,initiating the Russo-Turkish War of 1710.Normally,the bayor Duma have exercised power during his absence.However,mistursted the boyer,he instead abolished the Duna and create a senate of ten members.Peter's campaign in the Ottoman Empire was distroy in the ensuring peace treaty.

Peter's nortern armies took the swedish province of Livonia,driving the Swedes back into Finland in 1714 the Russian fleet won thr warfare of Gangut.Peter also obtained the assistance of the Electorate of Hanover and the Kingdom of Russia.Charles XII refused to yield and not until his death in battle in 1718 did peace become feasible.In 1721,the Treaty of Nystad ended what became known as Great Nortern War.