As of 26 June 1709, the deployment of troops around Poltava was as follows. The united Swedish-Ukrainian army was stationed in a camp south of the Yakivchanskyi forest, near the Holy Cross Monastery, in the siege trenches under the fortress, in a camp between Pushkarivka and Rybtsi, and had a convoy near Pushkarivka. The Moscow army was stationed in a fortified camp near Yakivtsi, in redoubts, between the fortified camp and the Malobudyshchanskyi forest, behind the Takhtaulivska ravine (Velykyi Yar).
Axel Julenkruk’s map ‘Plan of the Siege and Battle of Poltava’ shows the Swedish cavalry camp. The maps of the Swedish General Staff, compiled by Carl Benedik (1918), also show the presence of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks and Cossacks of Ivan Mazepa in this area. Archaeological objects from the 17th and 18th centuries (bullets, buttons, a fragment of a cauldron, nails, horseshoes, and musical instrument fragments) found in the area confirm the historical cartographic sources.
The hall exhibits portraits of King Charles XII and Hetman Ivan Mazepa, representatives of the military and political elite of Sweden, the commander of the Moscow army, Boris Sheremetev, and Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky, who was appointed by the tsar. The showcases feature original cold steel and firearms from the early 18th century.