Siege of Nyenschantz (1656)

Siege of Nyenschanz
	Part of the Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)
	; Model of the fortress
Date	June, 1656
Location	Russia
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Pyotr Potemkin
Units involved
Nyenschanz garrison	Unknown
Strength
Unknown	1,000

The fortress of Nyenschantz or Nienschanz, later Schlotburg, was founded by the Swedish King Charles IX in 1611, on lands that were annexed from Russia under the pretext of not fulfilling the Vyborg Treatise.^[1]

In June 1656, the Russian voivode Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin with a detachment of 1,000 people^[2] took Nyenschantz by storm, but after the war, both the fortress and the surrounding territories remained in Sweden.^[3]

The fortress was taken by the Russians under Peter the Great, after a week of siege on May 12, 1703 (during the Great Northern War). The city was renamed Schlotburg ("castle-town").

References

^ Željko., Fajfrić (2008). Ruski carevi (1. izd ed.). Sremska Mitrovica: Tabernakl. ISBN 9788685269172. OCLC 620935678.
^ Shkvarov, Alexei (2012). Россия и Швеция. История военных конфликтов 1142-1809 [Russia and Sweden. The history of military conflicts 1142-1809] (in Russian). Saint-Petersburg: RME Group Oy:Алетейя. p. 141. ISBN 978-5-91419-754-1.
^ The Cambridge history of Russia. Perrie, Maureen, 1946-, Lieven, D. C. B., Suny, Ronald Grigor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780521812276. OCLC 77011698.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[1] Željko., Fajfrić (2008). Ruski carevi (1. izd ed.). Sremska Mitrovica: Tabernakl. ISBN 9788685269172. OCLC 620935678.

[2] Shkvarov, Alexei (2012). Россия и Швеция. История военных конфликтов 1142-1809 [Russia and Sweden. The history of military conflicts 1142-1809] (in Russian). Saint-Petersburg: RME Group Oy:Алетейя. p. 141. ISBN 978-5-91419-754-1.

[3] The Cambridge history of Russia. Perrie, Maureen, 1946-, Lieven, D. C. B., Suny, Ronald Grigor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780521812276. OCLC 77011698.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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