Putin referred to it and vowed to restore Russia’s original lands. What is the story of the “Great Northern War”?

Nearly 3 centuries after the Great Northern War, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to that major battle while speaking during a meeting of young entrepreneurs in Moscow last Thursday, noting that Moscow is now trying to recover its “original lands”, just as the Russian emperor did. Peter the Great at the beginning of the eighteenth century, likening the current Russo-Ukrainian war to that of the old.