Popular Culture
The battle was portrayed in the monumental 1925 Swedish film Karl XII with Gösta Ekman as king Charles XII and the Russian emigrant actor Nicolai de Seversky as Peter I. Recently the battle was also portrayed in the 2007 Russian film The Sovereign's Servant (Russian: Слуга Государев, Sluga Gosudarev). The story of the battle, told from the point of view of a dying soldier, is related in the Al Stewart song The Coldest Winter in Memory. On their 2012 album Carolus Rex, Swedish power metal band Sabaton has a song named "Poltava", detailing the battle.
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