Although King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden had founded the Academia Gustaviana in 1632, it had ceased to exist in 1710 when Peter the Great had conquered the Baltic Sea provinces. Only in 1802 was the university re-founded by the order of the Tsar Alexander I as the only German-language and Lutheran university in the Russian Empire.
Although King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden had founded the Academia Gustaviana in 1632, it was eventually dissolved in 1710 when Peter the Great conquered the Baltic Sea provinces. The university was re-established in 1802 by Tsar Alexander I as a distinct German-language and Lutheran institution within the Russian Empire.