RUSSIA PETER I Silver 1721 Nystad Between Sweden & Russia Diakov 57.6 (R2) RARE

RUSSIA

PETER I. THE GREAT, 1682-1725



1st Silver Medal in 1721 the Treaty of Nystad between Sweden and Russia from
August 30.

Noah's Ark at sea, it flies a dove l. With olive branch in its beak, in the
background a rainbow connects the cities of St. Petersburg and Stockholm // 13
lines characters.

1st medal made from Russian homemade silver,original flow metal,41.79 mm , loop
,

28.32 g. Diakov 57.6 (R2).

RARE



The Treaty of Nystad (Russian: Ништадтский мир, Finnish: Uudenkaupungin rauha,
Swedish: Freden i Nystad, Estonian: Uusikaupunki rahu) was the last peace treaty
of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. It was concluded between the Tsardom of
Russia and the Swedish Empire on 10 September [O.S. 30 August] 1721 in the then
Swedish town of Nystad (Finnish: Uusikaupunki, in the south-west of present-day
Finland). Sweden had settled with the other parties in Stockholm (1719 and 1720)
and in Frederiksborg (1720).



During the war Peter I of Russia had occupied all Swedish possessions on the
eastern Baltic coast: Swedish Ingria (where he began to build the soon-to-be new
Russian capital of St. Petersburg in 1703), Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia
(which had capitulated in 1710), and Finland.



In Nystad, King Frederick I of Sweden formally recognized the transfer of
Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, and Southeast Finland (Kexholmslän and part of
Karelia) to Russia in exchange for two million silver thaler, while Russia
returned the bulk of Finland to Swedish rule.



The Treaty enshrined the rights of the German Baltic nobility within Estonia and
Livonia to maintain their financial system, their existing customs border, their
self-government, their Lutheran religion, and the German language; this special
position in the Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter
the Great (reigned 1682-1725) to Alexander II (reigned 1855-1881).



Nystad manifested the decisive shift in the European balance of power which the
war had brought about: the Swedish imperial era had ended; Sweden entered the
Age of Liberty, while Russia had emerged as a new empire.

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