While some Swedes tried to lay siege to Saint Petersburg in 1708 (but the town resisted), Charles XII of Sweden led an army to invade the territories around Smolensk, but ultimately co… Less well-known is invasion of Russia by the Swedes under their most famous king, Charles XII. The culmination… The invasion of Russia by Charles XII of Sweden was a campaign undertaken during the Great Northern War between Sweden and the allied states of Russia, Poland, and Denmark. Dorrell, Nicholas. The union broke up when Gustav Vasa (r. 1523-60) became king of Sweden. Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava (2007), Lund, Historiska media. The lands of Lithuania bordered the Russian lands throughout history, and before the 12th century, Lithuanian people were paying tributes to Russian princes. Charles fled with his surviving 543 men to the protection of the Ottoman Turks to the south, who were traditionally hostile to Russia. Several crazy tyrants with ambitions of world domination. In 1918-1921, Poland also warred against Soviet Russia, which ended with the Polish-Soviet border being defined – roughly the same as was settled back in the 17th century. Before Charles could give battle, though, Peter was able to bribe the Turkish vizier to peace; with this, Charles's ambitions to invade Russia were ended. Sweden emerged as a great European power under Axel Oxenstierna and King Gustavus Adolphus. Tsar Alexander of Russia offered friendship to Bernadotte and Sweden, despite a previous invasion of Swedish territories. In 1368 and 1370, the Lithuanian army besieged Moscow, and in 1402, with the help of Polish army, Lithuania took Smolensk again, which was theirs until 1522. In that same year the pro French party in the Swedish estates overthrew the existing monarch, Gustav IV and elected the aged and childless Charles XIII = 1809-18 . Follow/Fav And so the Soviets Conquered. This is when pre-Viking-Age Scandanavians likely settled the northwestern Russian town of Staraya Ladoga (or “Old Ladoga”), across Lake Ladoga from what is now Finland. pp 155, Lanciai Christian, Segern och nederlaget (1974) p. 107, Peter Frost, Katastrofen vid Poltava (2007) p. 259, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682- 1719 - R. Nisbet Bain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swedish_invasion_of_Russia&oldid=994629410, Articles with Swedish-language sources (sv), Articles with Russian-language sources (ru), Articles needing additional references from July 2020, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 December 2020, at 18:31. In 1380, Moscow prince Dmitry Donskoy famously defeated the Tatar army at the Kulikovo field, and exactly one hundred years after this, in 1480, the “yoke” of the Golden Horde was lifted during the reign of the first Grand Prince of Moscow, Ivan the Third. The Russian Empire and Turkey have the longest history of military conflicts. Napoleon Bonaparte’s huge project of world domination inevitably stumbled upon the Russian Empire. Karl XII:s ryska fälttåg: källstudier, Hans Villius (1951). Charles XII opened up a Norwegian front but was killed in Fredriksten in 1718. This would become the key tipping point that led to war. Brandenburg and Russia, together with such older states as Denmark and Poland, were natural enemies of Sweden. The Commonwealth, also known as Rzeczpospolita (“The Republic” in Polish), started its history with successful wars against Russia. But after his several unsuccessful attempts to marry one of the Russian princesses, Napoleon started to openly talk about “crushing Russia”. It is under his reign that Sweden converted to Lutheranism. However, some of these territories were later again taken by Russia after the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, and were returned once more to Turks after the 1918-1921 war between Soviet Russia and Turkey. In 1609-1618, during the Russian Time of Troubles (a major political and dynastic crisis), the Commonwealth invaded Russia, aiming to conquer and subjugate it. — Москва: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1959. pp. "Battle of Poltava" by Pierre-Denis Martin. Swedish armies briefly conquered Novgorod in 1611, but in 1617 were forced to give it back. Russia was so close to controlling the world, so what happened? Not that the White Horde was small enough to be easily conquered. We’re not here to retell the whole story of the 1812 war (click the link above for more! 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