Tankard representing the entrance of Emperor Peter the Great to Moscow after the Poltava victory.
Moscow, 1877.
Firm of P. Ovchinnikov
Silver, gilt.
Height: 47,0 cm
State Historical Museum, Moscow

There is a chased scene representing Peter the Great entrance to Moscow after his victory in the Poltava battle. Around the rim there is an inscription stating: "Entrance of Peter the Great to Moscow after the battle of Poltava. (1709)". At the top of the cover there is a bust of Peter the Great.

The relief is executed after an engraving (1711) by A.F.Zubov, a famous Russian engraver. A similar mug-can was in the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873.

During the Poltava battle in 1709 between Russian and Swedish armies Swedish army was defeated. It was a crisis in the Northern War (1700-1721) conducted by Peter the Great in order to have an exit to the Baltic Sea. Celebration of the victory in the Poltava battle was very solemn, because it was a convincing argument for Peter the Great's reforms. There is a description of the entrance of the victorious army: "When everything was ready for the entrance, all the canons on the walls and on the banks of the city went off, all the bells rang in all the churches, and the procession began to move."