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Peter the Great built his capital city on land near Russia's border with Finland. It was marshland where the river Neva meets the Gulf of Finland's easternmost shore. It was intended to be Russia's contact with the Western world unlike Moscow which was more in contact with the Eastern world. He named it St. Petersburg after his patron saint, St. Peter.
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∙ 14y agoPeter the Great built St. Petersburg from the ground up as his new capital.
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∙ 11y agoPeter the Great built St Petersburg, because he wanted to have a Navy with harbor linked to rest to Europe and to rest of the world, so his Empire could be more powerful...
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He conscripted tens of thousands of Russian peasants to work each summer.
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Ivan the Terrible dumb answer above, it was Peter the great.
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St. Petersburg
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Saint Petersburg
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Russia gained land along the Baltic Sea, and then used the land to build a new capital city, St. Petersburg.
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Peter the Great built St. Petersburg as a western alternative to Moscow. Moscow was too Asian and Byzantine for his likes, since he was a great admirer of the Western world. He built the new city more in the Western style and closer to the North Sea and ties to the West.
What new capital did Constantine build for the empire and why did he build it where he did?
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.
Who moved the capital away from Rome what was the name of the new capital city?
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
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The first accommodation built in the city of St Petersburg was a wooden house for Peter the Great himself. The domik is very small - only 60 sq. meters and is a strange combination of a traditional Russian house - izba - and a Dutch home with large and elaborate windows and high roof, covered with wooden tiles. Peter lived in this house between 1703 and 1708 and the living room, the bedroom, and the study, filled with Peter's original belongings, still bear the mark of his presence.
