People from Ingria saw a long boat trip, the Viking ships entered and left the Neva, starting around 800. They were indifferent in their trips to Lake Ladoga and beyond. They also saw the transformation of the environment, which eventually occurred with a swamp at the mouth of the Neva.
Later in 1611, Sweden built and controlled the Nyenskans Fortress, a Swedish fortress built in 1611 at the mouth of the Neva River on the Swedish controlled waterway to the Persian Gulf from Lake Ladoga.
The conflict was rooted in the Viking Age, when the Vikings established a trading post in Ladoga and controlled the flow of the Neva. The Slavic and Christianization of Northern Russia explained the deterioration of relations between the Vikings and Novgorod at the turn of the 11th century.
- Ladoga Castle (753-950 AD).
- Old Ladoga.
- Castle Tyurin (1100-1200AD).
- Vyborg Castle (1293AD).
- Kakisalmi Castle (originally known as Korela Castle).
- Pakhkina Saari Castle (1323 AD-Oreshek).
- Nyenskans Fortress (1611AD).
- Schlisselburg Castle (1702).
- Old Ladoga Castle.
According to legend, the Varangian leader by the name of Ruruk went to Ladoga in 862 AD and approved it as a central metropolitan center. Two years later, he moved to Novgorod in 864 AD. During 753 - 950 AD Ladoga was one of the most influential trading ports in Eastern Europe. It was a water route from the Baltic Sea to the Neva to Lake Ladoga, from there to Constantinople and the Caspian Sea. It is also known as the trade route from the Vikings to the Greeks. The original Finnish name Ladoga was Alod-yoki / Alajoki, which means: the lower river. (Wikipedia, Old Ladoga).
Tiversky or in Finnish; Tiurinlinna ,
It flourished during the Crusades (1100-1200 AD). It was a medieval Karelian fortified village 215-300 meters long and 40-56 meters wide on the Karelian Isthmus. It was located on the island of the Vuoksi River, which became a peninsula after 1857.
Vyborg fortress.
It was launched and built in 1293 by order of Torkel Knutson, Lord of the High Constable of Sweden, who made the so-called crusade to Karelia in the 1290s. The so-called Third Finnish Crusade was directed against the Russians. Novgorod. He chose the location of the new fortress in order to preserve Vyborg Bay, which has long been used by the trading site used by local residents. From the bay, the river path goes inland, which extremely connects this place with several districts, lakes, and indirectly also with the rivers going to Ladoga.
Kakisalmi Castle.
Center of the Center In the Middle Ages, Priozersk was known as Korela for Russians and Kakisalmi for Karelians and Finns. The Swedes captured Korela twice: seventeen years in 1578 and one hundred years in 1611. The main attraction of Priozersk, Korela fortress, has historically been the center of the Karelian Isthmus; and from time to time being the north-west stream of the present Russians or the eastern outpost of the Kingdom of Swedes.
The name Rautu, meaning (the Arctic ball), is a former municipality of Finland on the Karelian Isthmus, it was seized by the Soviet Union in 1944. The initial Finnish municipality had an area of 339.6 square kilometers, and its population was 5989 (1939), Rautu renamed Sosnovo to the Soviet Union in 1948.
The first qualification was built in 1299 by the lord High Constable of Sweden, Thorgils Knutsssonbut, was lost to Novgorod in 1301. A wooden fortress named Oreshek, also The nuts (Nutlet) was built by the Grand Duke Yuri of Moscow (as Prince of Novgorod) on behalf of the Novgorod Republic in 1323. He guarded the northern approaches to Novgorod and access to the Baltic Sea. The fortress is located on the island of Orekhovets, whose name refers to nuts in Swedish and Pahkinasaari , Island of nuts in Finnish and Russian.
In 1702, during the Great Northern War, the fortress was taken by the Russians under Peter I in a landing assault: 250 Swedish soldiers who defended the fort for 10 days before they surrendered.
“Russian losses amounted to 6,000 people against 110 Swedish losses. Then it was given its current name, Shlisselburg, a transcription of Schlasselburg. The name meaning "Key-fortress" in German refers to the perception by Peters of the fortress as the key to Ingria. "
(Wikipedia Ladoga).
Karelia with relations with the neighboring districts of the community was strong, as well as the return of the Karelian people to Christianity, beginning in 1100 AD, giving people an alternative to their previous pagan beliefs and practices.
Nyenshan fortress.
In 1611, Sweden built the Nyensha fortress on the bank of the Neva, on the bank where the river is located in the narrowest place. The strategic position of Sweden is to control and stop any Russian warships entering the Gulf of Finland. The fortress remained at the Swedish control until 1703.
Later Pahina-saari (nut island) Mir (1323), the border runs along the line from Rautu to Chiitola, following the most evenly populated area along the coastline of the Ladoga coast at the border during the crusades.
On May 1, 1703, during the campaign of the Great Northern War in Ingria, the fortress of Nyenskan was taken by Peter the Great and renamed Schlotburg. It was called the shelf city, due to the shape of a long narrow canal, at that moment on the Neva. There was a form of geographic funnel, neck or narrow strip, like a chimney. And it was built steadily in an alien city center, which became a city, and continued to grow around them and eventually became a city called Petersburg.
1713-1728 AD and 1732-1918 Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia. The city was built by draft peasants from all over Russia; Ingriyan, several Swedish prisoners of war were also involved for several years under the leadership of Alexander Menshikov. Tens of thousands of serfs died by building a city. The Moscow political forces that formed Stalinism, which followed his idealistic totalitarian goals and the goals of Mega Mania, are as high as the pyramids of Egypt. The ambitious plans of the leaders of mega-maniacs, as always, contradict the values and principles of the local indigenous people and the rural population. Rural community of people working on the land of the earth, which is under the common sky. They are represented and subordinated to slave labor, realize dreams and plans for the future of the military power of Russia and the Soviet Union.
The reasons: they were a minority group, an indigenous community from the countryside, they were an uncomfortable obstacle for the ambitious communist conquerors, but they had claims on their land and territory for their indigenous rights. Also because of their roots, their origin, faith, natural law, myths, traditions and Christian values. This sparked growing persecution from foreign Bolshevik and Stalinist ideologies. Thus, the communist Stalinism of the Soviet Union pushes the indigenous people of Ingria from their ancient homeland with brute force, forced evictions and cruelty, which destroyed their traditional communities.
A source:
Wikipedia. (Nd). Old Ladoga , Retrieved 11 November 2011, from Wikipedia: wiki / Staraya_Ladoga.
