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.
Peter the Great built St. Petersburg from the ground up as his new capital.
Peter 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...
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
Hernando Cortez established Mexico City and as the new capital of Mexico- then New Spain.
Constantine the great built an new capital in the Eastern Roman Empire. He moved the capital form Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople.
because they wanted to more people to move inwards and because the current capital was to easy to be invaded by Portuguese enemy's
Peter the Great's new Capital was a city on the Baltic Sea, renamed St Petersburg. Russia's "window to the West". :D
He conscripted tens of thousands of Russian peasants to work each summer.
Ivan the Terrible dumb answer above, it was Peter the great.
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No, Peter the great built St. Petersburg.
Russia gained land along the Baltic Sea, and then used the land to build a new capital city, St. Petersburg.
Constantine built the city of Constantinople as the new capital.
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.
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
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.