Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Viborg in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Peter I led an army of 20,000 men in an attempt to take the Swedish town and fortress of Viborg. Unfortunately, bad roads proved impassable to his heavy siege guns. The troops, who arrived on 12 October, therefore had to abandon the siege after only a few days
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