Editing Battle of Poltava (section)

== Aftermath ==
{{main|Surrender at Perevolochna}}
[[File:'The Victory at Poltava' by Alexander Evstafyevich Kotzebue, 1862, Hermitage.JPG|300px|thumb|''The victory at Poltava by [[Alexander Kotzebue]].'']]
High-ranking Swedes captured during the battle included Field Marshal Rehnskiöld, Major Generals Schlippenbach, [[Berndt Otto Stackelberg|Stackelberg]], Hamilton and Prince Maximilian Emanuel, as well as Piper.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|199, 203}}  Peter the Great held a celebratory banquet in two large tents erected on the battlefield.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|202}} [[Voltaire]] assumed Peter's reason for this, in raising a toast to the Swedish generals as war masters, was to send a message to his own generals about disloyalty.<ref name="Voltaire">Voltaire, [https://archive.org/stream/voltaireshistory00voltuoft/voltaireshistory00voltuoft_djvu.txt The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden] (1908)</ref>{{rp| 108}} Two mass graves contained the Russian dead, 500 meters southwest of their camp.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|205}} Previously when defeating Peter, Charles had gone so far as to pay the Russian troops. Peter instead took many Swedes, with great pride, and sent them to [[Siberia]].<ref name=Voltaire/>{{rp| 107}}

Charles and Mazepa escaped with about 1,500 men to [[Bendery]], [[Moldavian Principality|Moldavia]], then controlled by the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|710}} Charles spent five years in exile there before he was able to return to Sweden in December 1715.<ref name=Frost/>{{rp|295}} During this time, even handicapped, he retained his magisterial calm demeanor under fire, fighting his way out of several situations. The high [[vizier]] of the Turks was eventually paid off, with much intrigue and espionage involved and plots within plots, at one point involving a ransom of the Russian crown jewels, according to Charles' prison translator.<ref>Friedrich Ernst von Fabrice, [https://archive.org/details/genuinelettersb00fabrgoog The Genuine Letters of Baron Fabricius Envoy from His Serene Highness the Duke Administrator of Holstein to Charles XII of Sweden] (1761)</ref>

Since 3 September 2009, the battlefield has been listed by Ukraine as a [[State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine|monument of national historical significance]].<ref>{{Cite web |title= |script-title=uk:Державний реєстр нерухомих пам’яток України |trans-title=State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine |url=https://mcsc.gov.ua/kulturna-spadshchyna/derzhavnyy-reiestr-nerukhomykh-pam-iatok-ukrainy/ |website=[[Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications]]}}</ref>