History of History

Five years before the Battle of Poltava, Peter the First signed an alliance treaty with King Augustus of Poland and gave him a sword filled with diamonds as a sign of friendship. But Augustus, two years later, secretly concluded another treaty - with the enemy of Russia, the Swedish king Karl the Twelfth, and gave him the sword of the Russian tsar.
Peter through his intelligence learned about this story, however, in need of allies, after Poltava met with Augustus as if nothing had happened.
Where is my sword that I gave you? As if I asked.
The Polish King.
- Oh, I forgot her when I visited in Dresden, - without blinking the eye, replied
of August.
No problem, I’ll give you a new one. And Peter presented the sleeping man.
The face of the Polish is the same sword.
Charles the Twelfth threw it on the battlefield, and the sword was picked up by the Russian grenaders.