Savonlinna (Nyslott in Swedish, literally Newcastle) is a municipality of about 28,000 inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region.
St. Olaf's Castle
The city was founded in the 17th century based around St. Olaf's Castle. The castle was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 in an effort to protect Savonia and to control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary.
The city hosts the famous annual Savonlinna opera festival. The operas are performed on a stage built within the castle.
Swedish troops attacked the fortress at Nyslott, Gustav issued Catherine an ultimatum...
one-armed old man is the commander at Nyslott.
Several important towns are missing-Viborg, Villmanstrand, Fredrikshamn, Nyslott, Kexholm--the result, as Gronroos points out in his densely written and extraordinarily informative introduction, of political...
The 1 of july a detachment of 40 jaegers are left at Pumala, while the rest moves by boats to Nyslott on the Russian side of the border.
On the 3rd of july the forces are united at the gates of Nyslott and starts the blockade.
A patrol of an officer and four soldiers from the Savolax light infantry regiment was sent out on the 4th of July to Tunansari and Pungansalmi to remove all boats from the Russian side of the pass.
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