page_title: Netherlands–Russia relations
section_title: During the time of Peter the Great
hierarchical_section_title: Netherlands–Russia relations / History / During the time of Peter the Great
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter the Great statue in RotterdamNederlands: Pieter de Groot standbeeld in RotterdamРусский: Статуя Петра Великого в Роттердаме, Нидерланды.
context_page_description: Netherlands–Russia relations is the relationships between the two countries, the Kingdom of The Netherlands and The Russian Federation. Russia has an embassy in The Hague, and the Netherlands has an embassy in Moscow, a consulate in Saint Petersburg, and an honorary consulate in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
  Since the year 2013 the political relations have become strained due to a number of conflicts and incidents, the most prominent being the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the shooting down of MH17 in 2014 that killed 193 Dutch nationals, and the war in Donbass.
  In October 2018, the Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Dutch accused four Russians with diplomatic passports for attempting to carry out a cyber-attack in April on the headquarters of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. Ank Bijleveld told Dutch broadcaster NPO that the Netherlands is in a state of "cyberwar" with Russia. Moscow denied the accusations saying there were no real proofs and this was just a part of a "staged propaganda campaign against Russia."
context_section_description: Peter the Great whilst on his tour of western Europe (1697-1698) visited the Netherlands and practised as a shipwright in Zaandam. During his stay he managed to recruit some Dutch maritime expertise for the newly established Russian navy. One of the most notable Dutch members of the Russian navy was the Norwegian-born captain Cornelius Cruys, who after several years of service reached the rank of admiral and became the first commander of the Baltic Fleet.
caption: Statue of Peter the Great in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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