How the Swedes tried to wipe St. Petersburg off the face of the earth

For Tsar Peter the Great, the Northern War against Sweden began with a disastrous defeat at Narva in the year 1700. King Charles XII then thought the Russians were finished and decided to take on Polish king Augustus the Strong.

This decision was his huge mistake. Within a few years, Peter the Great had captured Swedish Ingermanland and founded St. Petersburg there in 1703. By doing so, he showed the enemy that