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At Her Royal Majesty's command there was to be a day of thanksgiving for the peace treaty ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648 also held in the Swedish province of Ingria.
The Russians and the Grand Duke's subjects in the immediate area doubted that any peace had been made between Kristina and the Holy Roman Emperor. Therefore, it was important that the celebration of the day of thanksgiving in Narva was large and noticed. Governor General Carl Mörner sent a letter with an account of the celebration to Kristina on December 20, 1649. It had been a banquet at the town hall, salutes with musketeers and cannons from the fortifications in Narva and Ivangorod, and speeches before Swedish, German, Finnish and Russian nobility and bourgeoisie. The festivities ended with a big fireworks display.
The letter included a painting of the fireworks. In the middle of the illustration, Kristina defeats the dragon, and below it is a verse.
The poem:
Den drake var jagh mädh ett stoort modh
som törstat hafwer alltijdh effter svenskt blodh
Jagh öffverwinnen, lijdha måst och bekenna
migh till sorgh, förtreet och stort älände
att det i världen nu bliffver spoort
CHRISTINA migh haffua till intet giordt
dess frögdar sig nu bådhe cvinna och mann
att hon frälst hafver sitt fädernes landh.
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