Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye
Alliance treaties
Preobrazhenskoe (1699) • Dresden (1699) • Narva (1704) • Dresden (1709) • Thorn (1709) • Copenhagen (1709) • Hanover (1710) • Lutsk (1711) • Adrianople (1713) • Schwedt (1713) • Stettin (1715) • Berlin (1715) • Greifswald (1715)
Peace treaties
Traventhal (1700) • Warsaw (1705) • Altranstädt (1706) • Pruth (1711) • Frederiksborg (1720) • Stockholm (1719) • Stockholm (1720) • Nystad (1721) • Stockholm (1729)
Surrenders
The Preobrazhenskoye Treaty was an alliance treaty directed against Sweden . He was born on November 11th . / November 21, 1699 greg. closed.
The signatories were Tsar Peter I and Johann Reinhold von Patkul, acting on behalf of King August II of Poland . The contract was concluded in secret negotiations in the Preobrazhenskoye settlement on the outskirts of Moscow . It was about the formation of an alliance, the "Nordic League" , against the great power of Sweden under King Charles XII. , to which Russia , Denmark and Poland and Saxony, ruled in personal union, should join.
Patkul was the originator of all these considerations which resulted in the Great Northern War . A few months earlier he had tried to bring about an alliance between Denmark and Brandenburg together with Augustus the Strong. But had Elector Friedrich III. no interest in it. Russia, on the other hand, was able to get used to the idea of a planned weakening of the Swedish position in the Baltic Sea region .
In May 1699 Patkul traveled to Copenhagen and won the Danish King Frederick IV for the pact. In the meantime, Patkul also lured August the Strong in memoranda, for whom he envisioned an increase in power over the territory of Livonia . The king finally sent him to the Tsar as a negotiator. The Russian ruler liked to stay in Preobrazhenskoye - a settlement colony based on the German model and with many foreigners, currently part of a Moscow city district.
A little later, in February 1700, the Great Northern War began.