Nyenskans to the Russians when the fortress was taken by Peter the Great during the Ingrian campaign of the Great Northern War. The site of Nyenskans...

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...

(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...

Sheremetev took the Swedish Ingrian fortresses of Nöteborg (October 1702) and Nyenskans (1 May 1703) (allowing the foundation of the city of Saint Petersburg...

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...

siege and capture of Noteburg; in 1703 he participated in the capture of Nyenskans. On 17 May 1704 he was appointed chief commander of St. Petersburg. In...

Nevanlinna may refer to: Nyenskans, a Swedish fortress on the river Neva from 1617 to 1703, at the location of today's Saint Petersburg Frithiof Nevanlinna...

battles of Erastfer and Hummelshof, the Russians had conquered Nöteborg and Nyenskans, as well as beginning the construction of Petersburg, which would become...

captured two important Swedish fortresses of Neva River (Nöteborg and Nyenskans) and founded Peter and Paul fortress that gave birth to the city of St...

 "Русско-шведские войны" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Hipping, A. J. (1837). Neva och Nyenskans. Helsingfors....

Pereswetoff-Morath (originally Alexander Moraht Pereswetoff, d. 1687), commandant of Nyenskans (Ingria), and his son, General Carl Pereswetoff-Morath, 1665–1736, active...

in their Baltic Dominions, among others, the fortresses of Nöteborg, Nyenskans, Dorpat and Narva.: 17  In 1705 the two sides prepared for a final confrontation...

Ensign Herman Reinhold Apolloff, † 1710 in the plague. Commandant of Nyenskans, Colonel Johan Apolloff, prisoner in Narva 1704, † 1706 in Russia Lieutenant...

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...

flows into river Neva. During the Swedish era there was a fortress called Nyenskans, "Neva fortlet". Since the establishment of Saint Petersburg, the area...

Uusi-Laatokka, Uusi Laatokankaupunki Novosyolki Novasolkka Nyenschantz Nevanlinna Nyenskans, Nyen Swedish Former Swedish Ingrian town and fortress Olonets Aunuksenkaupunki...

renovation were insignificant. In addition, the forts at Nöteborg and Nyenskans were considered sufficient to provide defense for the region. In 1702...