[RUSSO-SWEDISH WAR, 1741-1743] ELIZABETH PETROVNA – Russian Empress (1741-1761)

Report from Field Marshal General Count Lassi and Colonel Stuart dated August 25th from the camp at Elsen-Force, and a Copy of the Swedish Capitulation. Printed in Moscow by the Senate, September 4, 1742. - [4] p.; 29.5x18 cm. Stamps and notations from the bookstore. On 4 September 1742 during the Russian-Swedish war of 1741-1743 Russian troops under the command of Field Marshal P.P. Lassi in the area of Helsingfors (now Helsinki, Finland) surrounded and forced to surrender the 20-thousand Swedish army of General K.E. Levenhaupt. In Stockholm, the generals who signed the capitulation were tried and executed. After losing an entire army, there could no longer be any talk of resuming the fight. Following the Helsingfors capitulation, the Russians occupied the Finnish capital, Abo, on September 8, and also landed troops on the Åland Islands. All this forced the Swedish government to enter into peace negotiations at the beginning of 1743.