August 9, 2017 Mr Martin Hagström, Ambassador of Sweden to
Ukraine visited Poltava Battle Museum and laid a blue-yellow bunch of flowers
to the Monument to the fallen Swedish warriors erected in 1909 by their
compatriots near the village Pobyvanka. I was very pleased to tell a story of
the monument to Mr Hagström and answer his questions. Besides we were
discussing a question regarding commemoration of fallen warriors of the King
Charkes XII. Many thousand of them were buried in a hurry near the village Tachtaulove. Despite more than 300 years have passed since the Battle of
Poltava the main burial place of caroliners is still not marked even with a very
modest memorial stone.
During the visit to Poltava Battle Museum Mr Hagström was guided by Viktor Myroshnyk, the senior researcher at the museum
who speaks pretty good Swedish. Mr Hagström supported an idea of sending
Viktor Myroshnyk to Sweden for the summer courses in Swedish language in the
near future.
Besides the battle field Mr Hagström visited a
memorial stone unveiled recently in the village Nyzhni Mlyny on the place where
King Charles XII was wounded on the eve of the Battle of Poltava.
Near the entrance to the Museum of the Battle of Poltava
Mr Hagström and Viktor Myroshnyk in the museum
Mr Hagström is laying frowers to the Monument to the Swedish warriors killed in the Battle of Poltava
Mr Hagström and Oleg Bezverkhnii near the monument
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