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        On the Way to the Great Northern War

"I was in Doctor Nordbergs service when he accompanied King Charles XII in his campaigns in the Great Northern War."

The officers and priests had valets and servants with them. A valet takes care of the practical details around his employer, for instance he packes and unpacks the luggage, takes care of clothes and sees to that they washed and ironed. He dresses his master and if he wears a wig he takes care of it.

   
   

 

The Great Northern War and the importance of the Baltic Sea
The Great Northern War in Tallinn
Founding of  St.Petersburg