The event was attended by Sergei Naryshkin, the Chairman of the Russian Historical Society; Vladimir Medinsky, an Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation; and Anatoly Torkunov, the Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Co-Chairman of the Russian Historical Society.
The Treaty of Nystad signed on August 30 (September 10) of 1721 in the town of Nystad was the peace treaty between the Tsardom of Russia and the Swedish Empire that put a termination to the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. The treaty changed the Russian-Swedish frontier, previously established by the Treaty of Stolbovo of 1617. Sweden recognized the transfer of Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, and a part of Karelia (so called Old Finland) and other territories to Russia. Russia undertook to return occupied Finland to Sweden and pay it a monetary compensation.
The victory in the Northern War forwarded Russia into the ranks of major European states. On October 22 (November 2), 1721, Peter I proclaimed Russia an Empire and became its first Emperor. The Russian Empire as a state existed from 1721 until the February Revolution and the proclamation of a republic by the Provisional Government in September 1917.
The postal stamp provides an image of the Samson fountain on the territory of the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve. The print-run of the stamp 84 thousand stamps.
The Chairman of the Russian Historical Society thanked the management of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and JSC Marka “for their reverential attitude to the historical education of Russian nationals” and stated that “in the age of digital communications, the postage stamp proper is a symbol of the important attitude to the past and traditions of Russia”.
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