Events from the year 1703 in Russia
Incumbents Monarch – Peter I
Events 21 April – Battle of Pultusk; Charles XII wins the Battle of Pultusk during the invasion of Poland and Lithuania. 27 May – Tsar Peter the Great founds Saint Petersburg on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, naming it after the apostle Saint Peter.
Undated
Polish Sejm raise Polish and Lithuanian armies against Russia to 36,000 and 12,000 men respectively. Peter the Great assaults and captures the island fortress of Nöteborg, renaming it Shlisselburg.
Ongoing
Great Northern War
Births March 5 - Vasily Trediakovsky December 24 - Aleksei Chirikov
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