Editing Battle of Narva (1700) (section)

==Memory==
=== Russian memorial ===
In 1900, 200 years after the battle of Narva, the [[Preobrazhensky regiment|Preobrazhensky]] and [[Semyonovsky regiment]]s initiated the construction of a memorial to the Russian soldiers who had fallen in the Battle of Narva. The memorial consists of a granite pedestal with a cross on top, placed on a mound of earth. The inscription says: "Our heroic ancestors who fell in November 1700."<ref>Петров А. В (1901), pp. 354–355</ref>

=== Victory monument ===
On 20 November 2000, the [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sweden)|Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs]], [[Lena Hjelm Wallén]] inaugurated [[The Swedish Lion in Narva|a new memorial monument]] to celebrate the victory. Erected with an economic contribution from the [[Swedish Institute]], it replaced an older memorial erected in 1936, which disappeared during the [[Second World War]]. The monument is surmounted by a "Swedish lion", his left paw resting on a ball engraved with the [[Three Crowns]] of Sweden. It stands on a pedestal of granite. The Latin inscription on the pedestal reads "''MDCC''" (1700) and "''Svecia memor''" ("Sweden remembers").<ref>
[http://www.si.se/Svenska/Innehall/Om-Svenska-institutet/Historia/Storytelling/Svenska-institutet-och-Narva/ Svenska institutet och Narva] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130104119/http://www.si.se/Svenska/Innehall/Om-Svenska-institutet/Historia/Storytelling/Svenska-institutet-och-Narva/ |date=November 30, 2010 }}
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Siivertsi monument, Narva.jpg|Russian memorial near Narva
Narva asv2022-04 img24 Swedish Lion.jpg|[[The Swedish Lion in Narva|Swedish Lion Monument in Narva]]
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