Historical seminar in the Poltava Battle Museum

January 18, 2020 Today in the Museum of the Battle of Poltava, a scientific seminar dedicated to the 169th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Pavlovsky, founder and first director of the museum,  was held. My report was devoted to the work of the Swedish historian Håkan Henriksson, research archivist at ArkivCentrum Örebro län, Örebro, Sweden. 

Håkan Henriksson, research archivist at ArkivCentrum Örebro län, Örebro, Sweden

One of his latest articles is dedicated to the fate of the Ukrainian Cossacks, who were captured by the Swedish during the Great Northern War. For seminar participants, I translated an article by Hokan Henriksson: “Ukrainian Cossacks and other prisoners of war (POW) in Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700–1721)” for our local historians and museum's scientists. Altogether, more than 13.500 POW were brought to Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700–1721) of those about 650 were Ukrainian Cossacks. 

This article gives an overview of the occurrence of prisoners of war in the Swedish Empire during the Great Northern War: their capture, the number of prisoners of war, their nationalities, how they were treated and with a focus on fates of many Ukrainian Cossacks captured by the army of Charles XII. All historians and scientists working for the museum are looking for to meeting Mr.Henriksson in May 2020 in our museum when he is going to deliver us a lecture, dedicated to the Great Northern war 1700-1721.