title: The Seminal Events of the Great Northern War: Evolution of Perspectives from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First-Century
abstract: It is said that history is written and remembered by the victors.From 1700 to 1721, the Great Northern War shook Europe.From the Houses of Parliament in London to the embryonic city of St. Petersburg, the effects of the war reverberated.The effects of the conflict were to last for centuries, outlasting even the Soviet Union.Even today, memories still remain.In 2009 many Baltic nations marked the tercentenary of the Battle of Poltava where Russia defeated the Swedish army in what is now Ukraine.A
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