As a result of the Russian General Staff's ongoing, great work on the History of Peter I, and the basic work done by later Russian historians, such as Ustrjaloff, Solovjev and others, the history of the demise of the Swedish world in the Baltic provinces has, so to speak, been place on the agenda. In Sweden it has long been overlooked. Attention has been focused in no small degree on the little army which under W. A. v. Schlippenbach fought and went down in the defense of Livland. For information on this army we have in Sweden first class material, namely the field archives of W. A. v. Schlippenbach which belongs to Riksarkiv's military history collection. The archives cover the period from the summer of 1701 through the first half of 1707, and together cover at least 5000 documents (mostly letters from over 200 persons and authorities). This author wishes with this effort to bring this collection's presence and value to other researchers.

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