Piotr Nater
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To guard against the return of such humiliations, Gustavus contracted an alliance of fifteen years with the States General of the Netherlands, but with a keen eye to the future stipulated that it should in no wise affect the supremacy and control of the Baltic Sea.
The Dutch envoys described the young king as slender in figure, shapely, with a pale complexion, somewhat long features, light hair, and a pointed blow.
Great things were even then expected of him, and men praised his kindliness, his prudence, and his eloquence.
Gustavus, having no longer anything to fear on the side of Denmark, determined to profit by the confusion prevailing in Russia, and met with some successes, though he failed to retake Pskov.
In february sixteen seventeen a peace was concluded at Stolbova, by which Sweden obtained possession of Ingermanland and Karelia.
This was an acquisition of the greatest importance, as Russia was now shut out from the Baltic Sea.
Ingermanland and Karelia were bulwarks not only for Finland but for Sweden herself.
How wisely the king had judged was shown a hundred years later when those provinces were restored to Russia.
I hope to God, Gustavus said, as the treaty was passed, that the Russians will not now find it easy to cross this brook, the Baltic.
Gustavus made it one of the first aims of his reign to secure for Sweden the Baltic Sea and its shores.
A good beginning was the setting aside of his Russian rivals.
Sweden now stood forth bold and powerful, full of Protestant zeal and faith, the shield of the Reformation in Europe, and especially in Germany.
The efforts of the Catholics had proved utterly unavailing, they had resulted in utterly eradicating from the people's hearts all attachment to the old doctrines and intensifying their hatred of Catholicism.
For a few years longer, Rome flattered itself that with the aid of Poland it might win Russia to the Catholic faith.
To this end the Jesuits had applied all the means of deceit, falsehood and violence so characteristic of their order.
But the Russian people, grown conscious of their own strength, had broken the net woven about them, and Poland and Jesuits had been ingloriously driven out of the land.
The Counter Reformation in the Northeast retained only one of its conquests, Poland.
This was a misfortune for that noble country.
Catholic bigotry worked the same ruin for the Poles that it wrought in Spain and in Italy.
The lands where Rome prevailed were doomed to decay and sometimes utter ruin, while Protestant countries grew more and more powerful and enterprising.
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