History of Sweden (1611–1648)
During the 17th century, despite having scarcely more than 1 million inhabitants, Sweden emerged to have greater foreign influence, after winning wars against Denmark–Norway, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia, and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. Its contributions during the Thirty Years' War under Gustavus Adolphus helped determine the political, as well as the religious, balance of power in Europe.
Carl Gyllenhielm
Baron Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm was a Swedish soldier and politician. He was made a baron (friherre) in 1615, appointed Field Marshal in 1616, Privy Councilor in 1617, Governor General of Ingria in 1617 and served as Lord High Admiral from 1620 until his death.
Jacob De la Gardie
Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 onward.
Korela Fortress
Korela Fortress, at the town of Priozersk, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
Time of Troubles
The Time of Troubles was a period of Russian history during the interregnum in the Tsardom of Russia between the death of Feodor I in 1598 to the accession of Michael I in 1613.
Nyenschantz
Nyenschantz was a Swedish fortress at the confluence of the Neva River and Okhta River, the site of present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia. Nyenschantz was built in 1611 to establish Swedish rule in Ingria, which had been annexed from the Tsardom of Russia during the Time of Troubles. The town of Nyen, which formed around Nyenschantz, became a wealthy trading center and a capital of Swedish Ingria during the 17th century. In 1702, Nyenschantz and Nyen were conquered by Russia during the Great Northern War, and the new Russian capital of Saint Petersburg was established by Peter the Great in their place the following year.
Treaty of Stolbovo
The Treaty of Stolbovo was a peace treaty which ended the Ingrian War which had been fought between Sweden and Russia between 1610 and 1617.
Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
The Polish–Muscovite War, also known as the Polish–Russian War of 1605–1618 or the Dimitriads, was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1605 to 1618.
Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky
Prince Mikhail Vasiliyevich Skopin-Shuisky was a Russian statesman and military figure during the Time of Troubles. He was the last representative of a cadet branch of the Shuysky family.
De la Gardie campaign
The De la Gardie campaign was a joint military campaign by the Tsardom of Russia and Sweden during the Polish–Muscovite War from April 1609 to June 1610.
Gdov Kremlin
The Gdov Kremlin is located on a bank of the Gdovka River, overlooking the Russian town of Gdov.
Polish–Swedish War (1617–18)
The Polish–Swedish War (1617–18) was a phase of the longer Polish–Swedish War (1600–29). It continued the war of 1600–11 and was an attempt by Sweden to take Polish pressure off Russia. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was then also fighting Tartars and the Ottoman Empire. Russia and Sweden were at that stage allied, prior to the Ingrian War, part of Russia's Time of Troubles. The 1617–18 war's cause was a dispute over Livonia and Estonia, and a dispute between Sigismund III Vasa and Gustavus Adolphus over the Swedish throne.
Russia–Sweden relations
Russia-Sweden relations date back to the 10th century; when Swedish Vikings called Varangians founded new states that later evolved into Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Grigory Valuyev
Grigory Leontyevich Valuyev, also spelt as Voluyev, was a Russian voyevoda, the older of the two sons of Leontiy Valuyev.
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus, also known in English as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, was the King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, and is credited for the founding of Sweden as a great power. He led Sweden to military supremacy during the Thirty Years' War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. He was formally and posthumously given the name Gustavus Adolphus the Great by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1634.
Siege of Pskov (1615)
Siege of Pskov was an episode of the Ingrian War.
Siege of Gdov
Siege of Gdov was part of the Time of Troubles and an episode of the Ingrian War.
Battle of Gdov
The Battle of Gdov in the Russo-Swedish War took place on September 16, 1657 in Gdov. The battle was a clear victory for Prince Ivan Khovansky of the Tsardom of Russia over Swedish Governor-General Count Magnus De la Gardie allowing the Russians to regroup after a brief resurgence of Swedish resistance.