Because Peter the Great wanted a trading port through which he could easily trade with Western Europe's maritime nations and he wanted a port that wouldn't be iced up in winter. A seaport on the Baltic coast fit both requirements.
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Oresund. The Baltic is between Finland and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Stockholm is on the coast of the Baltic sea.
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The Baltic Sea. It has amazing beaches in Poland.
The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea.
Stockholm is on the Baltic Sea