Poltava

The poem by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin «Poltava» — is a large-scale historical canvas, where the fates of the state and personal passions intertwine.
At the center of the narrative — the love of the Ukrainian beauty Maria for the aging hetman Ivan Mazepa, his betrayal of Tsar Peter I and his switch to the side of the Swedish King Charles XII. One of the most vivid episodes of the poem — the Battle of Poltava in 1709, which determined the outcome of the Northern War and the fate of Russia.