St. Petersburg. It was built by him in a tidal area and was very hard to do. Today it is a modern colorful city with 41 canals and bridges connecting to each other. It is the most northern city in Europe only 500 miles from the Arctic Circle.
Peter the Great's new Capital was a city on the Baltic Sea, renamed St Petersburg. Russia's "window to the West". :D
Saint Petersburg although its name was different then!
Well, technically Russia only has one capital city, which is Moscow. St. Petersburg was the capital between Peter the Great's rule until the end of czarist Russia. The capital was moved to Moscow during the October Revolution. The reason they moved is because Moscow is the only other LARGE city which is closer to all the other Soviet states. Before Peter the Great built St. Petersburg, Moscow was the capital.
The capital of Russia is Moscow.
No, it didn't. Under Peter the Great's reign Saint-Petersburg became the capital of Russia. Only in 1917 when the regime of czars fell and the Soviet Union was founded, Moscow again became the capital.
St. Petersburg, Russia
Under Czarist rule, the capital of Russia was originally Moscow as the Grand Duchy of Muscovy was the dominant force in Russia at the time of the Ivan III, the first ruler to refer to himself as Czar. Then Czar Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg. Vladimir Lenin later moved it back to 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.
Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg which is now a Federal City on the Baltic sea. ( Saint Petersburg is on Russia)
Moscow is the capital city of Russia. It does not have a capital.Moscow is a city and not a country. Moscow is the capital of Russia.
Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg in 1703, which is now a Federal City on the Baltic sea.
Russia gained land along the Baltic Sea, and then used the land to build a new capital city, St. Petersburg.