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.
Constantine the Great. The new capital city Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after him.
he built what is today known as Istanbul (Constantinople) located in Turkey.
Hernando Cortez established Mexico City and as the new capital of Mexico- then New Spain.
Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725, is renowned for his extensive reforms that modernized Russia. He sought to westernize the country by introducing new technologies, reorganizing the military, and reforming government structures. He also established St. Petersburg as a new capital to symbolize Russia's shift toward European integration. His efforts laid the groundwork for Russia's emergence as a major European power.
Constantine the great built an new capital in the Eastern Roman Empire. He moved the capital form Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to Constantinople.
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.
The new Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, was built on the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1703 by Peter the Great. It was strategically located to provide Russia with access to maritime trade and serve as a window to Europe.
Yes, St. Petersburg was intended by Peter the Great to be Russia's capital. He established the city in 1703 as part of his efforts to modernize Russia and to create a new, western-oriented capital that would symbolize Russia's emergence as a major European power. St. Petersburg served as the capital until 1918, when it was replaced by Moscow.
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.
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.