CHISINAU SUMS UP RESULTS OF KING KARL'S XII STAY IN MOLDOVA

The National Museum of History of M hosted an international conference called "Historical excavation "The camp of Swedish King Karl XII in Varnita" Memory restoration".

According to the Ministry of Culture, the conference became the final part of the events organized in the framework of the project "Historical excavation "The camp of Swedish King Karl XII in Varnita - restoration and promotion", which started on April 1, 2016.

The conference was organized by the National Museum of History in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Moldova, public organization "Women, Hope, Future" (Varnita), Army Museum in Stockholm and the Moldovan Embassy in Sweden. Deputy Minister of Culture Gheorghe Postica noted that the project included archaeological and historical-documentary research, numerous exhibitions have been organized, monographs have been issued, and monument to Karl XII in Varnita was renovated.

"It is gratifying to emphasize that thanks to the researches made by the colleagues of the Moldova Museum of History, new artifacts, related to the camp of King Karl XII, have been found. We hope that this project will be successful and we will open a museum in the open air, a cultural heritage site, which will contribute to further good relations between Sweden and Moldova", he said.

The archaeological finds at the site date from the early XVIII century, when in 1709, after the defeat in the battle of Poltava, king of Sweden Karl XII and about 1000 Swedish soldiers arrived in Bender first, and then in Varnita, and stayed there until 1713.