Treaty of Nystad

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Preobraschenskoje (1699 ) • Dresden ( 1699) • Narva (1704) • Dresden ( 1709) • Thorn ( 1709) • Copenhagen ( 1709) • Hanover ( 1710) • Lutsk (1711 ) • Adrianople (1713 ) • Schwedt ( 1713) • Stettin (1715 ) • Berlin (1715 ) • Greifswald (1715 )

Peace treaties

Traventhal (1700) • Warsaw ( 1705) • Altranstädt ( 1706) • Prut (1711 ) • Frederiksborg ( 1720) • Stockholm ( 1719) • Nystad (1721 )

Capitulations

Estonia and Livonia (1710 )

The Treaty of Nystad (Finnish Uusikaupunki ) ended on 30 Augustjul. / September 10 1721greg. the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia.

The Russian side was represented by the Privy Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann and Count Jacob Daniel Bruce, the Swedish side by Count Johann von Lilienstedt and Baron Otto Reinhold Strömfelt.

The contract consisted of a preamble and 24 articles. After Sweden had the provinces of Livonia, Estonia and Ingria and part of Karelia to Russia to cede. Thus Russia won broad access to the Baltic Sea.

In return, Russia acknowledged the occupied territories Swedish - Finland and undertook to pay reparations in the amount of two million rix-dollars. In addition, Sweden was awarded "for all time " the right in Riga, Tallinn and Kuressaare grain worth 50,000 rubles annually buy duty free. Excluded were only years of crop failure.

While Russia rose by territorial gains in the Baltic region as a European superpower, Sweden lost its claimed since the end of the Thirty Years' War position as a North European power.

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