RISE OF RUSSIA
May 14, 2020
3 minutes
“ST PETERSBURG BECAME FAMOUS AS PETER THE GREAT’S ‘WINDOW TO THE WEST’, A SYMBOL OF A BURGEONING EMPIRE THAT WOULD REMAIN DOMINANT, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, FOR THE NEXT 300 YEARS – AND REMAINS SO TODAY”
1703, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia founded the city of St Petersburg on the site of a captured fortress in the province of Ingermanland. His army had taken the territory from Sweden, and his vision to vanquish Russia’s
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