| Brand | MILITIA MODELS |
| Scale | 75 mm. |
| Material | Master, stampa in resina e pittura ad acrilico |
| Sculptor | Andrea Glioti |
| Painter | Andrea Terzolo |
| Price | 250,00 €. |
One-of-a-kind collector’s piece, assembled and painted on a wooden base.
On August 27, 1707, Charles XII of Sweden, at the head of his army, left Altranstädt, in Saxony, heading east. As early as September 7, his troops crossed the Oder River at Steinau, which at the time marked the border with Poland.
On the other side, the Russian army under Prince Menshikov began retreating towards the territories of the Tsar of Russia, leaving western Poland to its fate. During his retreat, following directives issued by the Tsar himself, Menshikov implemented a “scorched earth” strategy: setting fire to buildings and crops along the route; poisoning wells that would subsequently fall into enemy hands; killing livestock and, wherever possible, confiscating animals and essential supplies.
Poland once again became the battlefield on which the claims and ambitions of two great powers would be decided.
Thus began what would go down in history as the Poltava Campaign. For the following two years — the duration of the entire operation — the belligerents experienced the climax of a terrible conflict that had already been raging across north-eastern Europe since 1700, almost as if ushering in the new century. This conflict would later become known as the Great Northern War (also referred to as the “Second Northern War”, 1700–1721).
The Great Northern War was the military conflict that brought an end to Swedish dominance in north-eastern Europe and allowed a new power to emerge and establish itself — a power that would go on to shape European geopolitics for centuries to come: Russia.
On one side stood the Swedish sovereign Charles XII, with his Baltic “Commonwealth”; on the other, Peter I Alexeyevich Romanov of Russia, known as “the Great”, together with all his allies — the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Electorate of Saxony. (...)
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