Summary In 1617, after seven years of war between Sweden and Russia and talks facilitated by English and Dutch diplomats, the peace treaty of Stolbovo was signed. This important but little-studied document was to form the basis for relationships between Sweden and Russia for the next one hundred years, before it was replaced by the Peace of Nystad in 1721, and it had a huge influence on the lives of the people who lived in the region. This wide-ranging volume draws together contributions by scholars from Britain, Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Russia, and Finland to offer new insights into, and analysis of this peace treaty and its impact on the wider region during the seventeenth century. Covering disciplines including political and economic history, church history, and Slavonic and Classical philology, the chapters gathered here shed new light on, and provide a new understanding of, the Early Modern period in the Baltic Sea area. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Arne J nsson and Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich Introduction Arne J nsson and Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich Stolbovo in Perspective. Jacobean Diplomacy in the Baltic Region, 1589-1618 Steve Murdoch The Dutch Republic, Sweden, and Moscow.The Dream of the Russian Market Kristian Gerner Cartographic Knowledge and Geographic Ignorance. Karelia and the Cap of the North in the Swedish Imagination around 1600 Stefan Troebst The Stolbovo Treaty and Tracing the Border in Ingria in 1617-1618 Adrian Selin The Symbolic Uses of the Early Modern Russo-Swedish Border Alexander Tolstikov Ryssg rden. The Russian Factory in Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century Elisabeth L fstrand The Treaty of Stolbovo and Tallinn's Customs Rental Agreement (1623-1629) Enn K ng Influence of the Peace of Stolbovo on Estonia and Livonia lle Tarkiainen Ingria as a Swedish Province in the Seventeenth Century Kasper Kepsu The Treaty of Stolbovo and Its Impact on Narva's Urban Development Stefan Herfurth Petitions, Letters, Wills, and Receipts. A First Road Map to The King's Russian-Writing Subjects in Swedish Ingria, 1617-1656 Alexander I. Pereswetoff-Morath The Mosaic of Knowledge about Muscovy in Sweden in the Great Power Era Kari Tarkiainen Superstitious Christians. Lutheran Views on the Russian Orthodox Church in the Swedish Great Power Era David Gudmundsson The Peace of Stolbovo as Reflected in the De la Gardie Archives. Some Manuscript Examples Per Stobaeus Historia Vladislai by Stanis?aw Kobierzycki as a Source of Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici by Johannes Widekindi Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich The Treaty of Stolbovo. A Failure or Success of Russian Diplomacy? Gennady Kovalenko Index of Persons Index of Places Index rerum Contributors