Nyenschantz (redirect from Nyenskans)
Nyenskans to the Russians when the fortress was taken by Peter the Great during the Ingrian campaign of the Great Northern War. The site of Nyenskans...
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Palmyra", due to its extravagant architecture. Swedish colonists built Nyenskans, a fortress at the mouth of the Neva River in 1611, which was later called...
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(1703) in the southern end of the isthmus, in place of old Swedish town Nyenskans. Then in 1812, the northwestern half was transferred, as a part of Old...
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Sheremetev took the Swedish Ingrian fortresses of Nöteborg (October 1702) and Nyenskans (1 May 1703) (allowing the foundation of the city of Saint Petersburg...
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siege and capture of Noteburg; in 1703 he participated in the capture of Nyenskans. On 17 May 1704 he was appointed chief commander of St. Petersburg. In...
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than try to seize Saint Petersburg, founded from the Swedish town of Nyenskans five years earlier. Peter the Great managed, however, to ambush Lewenhaupt's...
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Nevanlinna may refer to: Nyenskans, a Swedish fortress on the river Neva from 1617 to 1703, at the location of today's Saint Petersburg Frithiof Nevanlinna...
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battles of Erastfer and Hummelshof, the Russians had conquered Nöteborg and Nyenskans, as well as beginning the construction of Petersburg, which would become...
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"Русско-шведские войны" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Hipping, A. J. (1837). Neva och Nyenskans. Helsingfors....
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Pereswetoff-Morath (originally Alexander Moraht Pereswetoff, d. 1687), commandant of Nyenskans (Ingria), and his son, General Carl Pereswetoff-Morath, 1665–1736, active...
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