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Nyenschantz (Swedish:
Nyenskans; Russian: Ниеншанц, romanized: Niyenshants; Finnish: Nevanlinna) was a
Swedish fortress at the
confluence of the Neva...
- 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...
- 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...
- (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 parti****ted in the
capture of
Nyenskans. On 17 May 1704 he was
appointed chief commander of St. Petersburg. In...
- 1702–1703,
Russian troops captured the
Swedish fortresses of
Noteborg and
Nyenskans on the Neva
river that
provided Russia an
outlet to the
Baltic Sea. A...
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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...
- Pereswetoff-Morath (originally
Alexander Moraht Pereswetoff, d. 1687),
commandant of
Nyenskans (Ingria), and his son,
General Carl Pereswetoff-Morath, 1665–1736, active...
- ISBN 9189080262. "Русско-шведские войны" .
Brockhaus and
Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Hipping, A. J. (1837). Neva och
Nyenskans. Helsingfors....
