Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia

in which Peter, Tsar of all the Russians, and the King of Prussia [Friedrich Wilhelm I] acknowledge each other's rights & privileges, and confirm the lands acquired by both during in the Great Northern War; Peter agrees not to make any peace with the Swedish Crown that would rescind Prussia's gains of the City of Stettin and its surroundings as far as the river Peene (Pehne), including the city of Wolgast and the islands of Wollin and Usedom; and on the other hand the King of Prussia undertakes to assist Peter in maintaining his conquest of the provinces of Ingria (Ingermanland), Karelia, Estonia (Esthland), and the cities of Narva, Vyburg (Wybourg) and Talinn (Reval), promising not to dispute any further provinces gained by Russia from Sweden, and providing for mutual assistance in the case of any aggression, the treaty to be produced in identical Russian and German versions and to be signed on both sides, 4 pages, folio, countersigned by Peter's foreign minister, Prince Gavril Golovkin (1660-1734), St Petersburg, 16 September 1714 (new style)

with, written on similar paper, a contemporary manuscript of the text in German, including a copy of Peter's signature; together 2 items, 8 pages in all, on two bifolios (c.33 x 22cm), post-horn watermarks, sewn together with gold, red and white threads, with a modern typed transcript of the German text, faint trace of red seal remaining, dust-marking to blank panel, staining from seal

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Prussia had been officially neutral in the Great Northern War (1700-1721) between Charles XII of Sweden and Peter the Great, but the new king Friedrich Wilhelm ("The Soldier King"), was keen to take advantage.   Prussian troops had occupied Swedish-owned Stettin in 1713 by entering the city, ostensibly as observers, and refusing to leave.  Peter the Great agrees to the King of Prussia's rightful ownership of these acquisitions in former Swedish Pomerania, and in return Prussia confirms Peter's conquest of the Ingrian, Karelian and Estonian provinces around the south and east of the Gulf of Finland, and agrees to assist him in maintaining them. The difference from the Treaty of Schwedt, concluded on 6 October 1713, is that here there is no specific mention of the monetary assistance that Prussia would give to Russia.