GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Saint Petersburg was founded by ____
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Czar Nicholas II
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Peter the Great
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Catherine the Great
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Ivan the Terrible
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After winning access to the Baltic Sea through his victories in the Great Northern War, Czar Peter I founds the city of St. Petersburg as the new Russian capital on May 27, 1703.
Detailed explanation-2: -As any Russian textbook would have you know, Peter the Great wanted to “hack a window to Europe, ‘’ which meant not just a port and a navy on the Baltic Sea, but also a city that looked European and lived in accordance with European standards.
Detailed explanation-3: -Petersburg, Russian Sankt-Peterburg, formerly (1914–24) Petrograd and (1924–91) Leningrad, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia.
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