About the book: 2008 / The book tells about the thousand-year history of relations between Russia and its northern neighbor Sweden. Why did the fraternal relations, both literally and figuratively, between the Russian princes and the Varangian kings turn into irreconcilable hostility by the 13th century? What really happened on the Neva in 1240? Did the Swedish king Magnus become a schema-monk of the Valaam Monastery? How did the Swedes build the city of Nyen in the center of modern St. Petersburg, and why did Peter I want to make it his capital, and then changed his mind? How did the Bernadotte dynasty end up on the Swedish throne? How neutral Sweden managed to fight against Russia during both world wars?