This Victoria was one of the greatest world historical events. The power of Sweden, created artificially through conquest, was crushed. The veil that hid Russia from the rest of Europe disappeared, and before the astonished peoples of the West a new vast and powerful state appeared, capable of defeating a leader and an army hitherto considered invincible. With the thunder of the Battle of Poltava, a new great people was born for Europe, for the common European life: with In the thunder of this battle, a whole new tribe was born, the Slavic tribe, which found for itself a worthy representative, with the help of which it could rise to a strong and glorious historical life.