Russia Tin-Alloy Medal 1721 (2nd half 18th c.) - Peace of Nystad, 30 August 1721 - Peter I (1682-1725)

Russia Tin-Alloy Medal 1721 (2nd half 18th c.) - Peace of Nystad, 30 August 1721 - Peter I (1682–1725)
55.88g. 60mm. UNC/UNC. Bright mirror mint luster. Medalier: unknown. Diakov 57.2 (Ar - R2). Medals of the Peace of Nystad bearing Russian inscriptions are encountered rather infrequently. Obv.: In the center, Noah’s Ark; above, a flying dove with an olive branch in its beak. On the horizon at left, the view of St. Petersburg; at right, Stockholm, connected by a rainbow with the inscriptions S. PETERSBURG and STOKHOLM. Inscription above: СОЮЗОМЪ МИРА СВЯЗУЕМЫ (Bound by the union of peace). Below the truncation, in three lines: ВЬНЕИСТАТѢ | ПОПОТОПѢ СЕВЕРЪНЫЯ | ВОИНЫ 1721 (After the flood of northern wars, at Nystad, 1721). Rev.: Straight thirteen-line inscription: В • И • Б • Щ | ГОСУДАРЮ | ПЕТРУ • I • | IМЕНЕМЪ • IДѢЛАМИ • ПРЕДИВНЫМИ | ВЕЛИКОМУ • | РОССИСКОМУ • IМПЕРАТОРУ • | И ОТЦУ | ПО ДВАДЕСЯТОЛѢТНЫХЪ • ТРIУМѲОВЪ | СѢВЕРЪ • УМИРИВШЕМУ • | СИЯ • ИЗЪ ЗЛАТА • ДОМАШНЕГО | МЕДАЛIЯ | УСЕРДНЕIШЕ • ПРИНОСИ | ТСЯ • (To the most great and pious sovereign Peter I, by name and by deeds wondrous, the great Russian Emperor and Father, who after twenty years of triumphs pacified the North; this medal of domestic gold is most fervently presented). The medal commemorates the conclusion of the Peace of Nystad, signed on 30 August 1721 between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden, formally ending the Great Northern War (1700–1721). By this treaty Sweden ceded Ingria, Estonia, Livonia, and part of Karelia to Russia, while retaining Finland. The peace secured for Peter the Great access to the Baltic Sea and international recognition of Russia as a European power, marking the decline of Sweden’s dominance in Northern Europe. Soon after the treaty, Peter assumed the title Emperor of All Russia, symbolizing the birth of the Russian Empire and the new political balance that reshaped the North for the century ahead.