1703 in Russia

none 1703 Events from the year 1703 in Russia Incumbents Monarch – Peter I Events 21 April – Battle of Pultusk; Charles XII wins the Battle of Pultusk during the invasion of Poland and Lithuania. 27 May – Tsar Peter the Great founds Saint Petersburg on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, naming it after the apostle Saint Peter.Shevchenko Elizaveta 2021-10-11 The Five Names of St. Petersburg https://news.itmo.ru/en/features/experience_saint_petersburg/news/12166/ 2025-07-29 news.itmo.ru ru Undated Polish Sejm raise Polish and Lithuanian armies against Russia to 36,000 and 12,000 men respectively.Frost Robert I. https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0582064309 The Northern Wars: War, State, and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 2000 Longman 978-0-582-06430-0 en Peter the Great assaults and captures the island fortress of Nöteborg, renaming it Shlisselburg.Tucker Spencer https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9781851096671 A Global Chronology of Conflict [6 Volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East 2010 Bloomsbury Academic 978-1-85109-667-1 en Ongoing Great Northern War Births March 5 - Vasily Trediakovsky December 24 - Aleksei Chirikov References 1703 1703 Category:1703 by country Category:Years of the 18th century in Russia