The Russian-Swedish border on the Karelian section in the XIV - early XIX century: some accents in modern historiography
The state border is a much more complex phenomenon than it may seem at first glance. This is not just a line drawn in a certain location that divides the territories of two neighboring states, it delimits two worlds, two structures, and serves as a cultural, religious, social and political delimiter, as happened in Russian-Swedish relations between the 14th and the early 19th centuries. The article examines controversial issues related to the Russian-Swedish border in modern domestic and Western historiography.