User blog comment:BoogieMango/If You Could Meet ANY Figure in History.../@comment-4034967-20130309011159/@comment-3112181-20130309214441

You kidding bro? Sweden had just emerged from the Thirty Years War in the previous centuries as one of the greatest new powers in Europe; Russia was practically still a remote, barbaric kingdom completely cut-off from the west. Not to mention the Swedes had the greatest navy in the Baltic Sea and the Russians didn't even have a single ship.