Siege of Nöteborg (1702)

Siege of Nöteborg
	Part of the Great Northern War
	; The storm of Swedish fortress of Nöteborg by Russian troops. Czar Peter I is shown in the center.
Date	26 September – 11 October 1702 (O.S.); 27 September – 12 October 1702 (S.S.); 7–22 October 1702 (N.S.)
Location	Nöteborg, Swedish Empire, renamed Shlisselburg, Russian Empire; (present-day Leningrad Oblast, Russia)
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Gustav Wilhelm von Schlippenbach ; Hans Georg Leijon	Peter I; Boris Sheremetev
Strength
About 440 soldiers; 142 light artillery guns	12,500 men deployed, 20,000–35,000 in total ; 51 heavy artillery guns
Casualties and losses
200 killed,; 156 wounded; Total:; About 360 casualties	538 killed,; 925 wounded; Total:; About 1,500 casualties

The siege of Nöteborg was one of the first sieges of the Great Northern War, when Russian forces captured the Swedish fortress of Nöteborg (later renamed Shlisselburg) in October 1702. Peter the Great had assembled a force of 20,000 men for this task, and marched for ten days to his destination. About 12,000 of these men were positioned on the banks of the Neva river, where they camped until 6 October (N.S.). On that day, after giving command of the main force to Boris Sheremetev, he moved toward Nöteborg. After the Swedish commander, Wilhelm von Schlippenbach, refused to give up the fort immediately, the Russians began bombarding it. A final Russian assault on the fort was tactically unsuccessful, resulting in heavy casualties, but forced the fort's defenders to surrender on 22 October 1702. After taking control, Peter immediately began reconstructing the fort for his own purposes, renaming it Shlisselburg.