"The Foundling of the Wreck" by Anonymous Young readers are encouraged to take a map of Europe, and look to the west while reading to see a broad wide sea called the Baltic, stretching northward and separating the countries of Norway and Sweden from Russia. To the east of this sea is a gulf, called the Gulf of Finland, and at the extremity of that gulf, at the mouth of the river Neva, stands the city of St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia in Europe.These are the territories that are explored in this text.