Russia, St. Petersburg And Peter the Great

Russia, St. Petersburg, Peter the Great Russia, St. Petersburg, City, Peter the Great, Emperor, what a wonderful combination. This report is about people, cities, land, but this is mainly about this person. He could not understand the country and the city without studying the great emperor of the Romanov dominated family of Russia. Four generations, Romanoff (7) dominated. Alex Alexei Bic, the son of Alexis, the greatest member of the family, declared himself to be "a person who does not have to answer the behavior he did to someone in the world".

Peter the Great thinks this is what he went to St. Petersburg in Russia from the beginning. Finding places on the Russian land will be one of the most difficult parts of the establishment of St. Petersburg. You can enter the Mediterranean at any time. He brought the most famous architect in Europe. In 1703, Peter began to build a new city in the northern part where the Neva was released to Lake Ladoga. This town is built on countless islands, canals, marshes. This situation was cruel, nearly 100,000 workers died in the first year only. But within 10 years, St. Petersburg is the capital city of the Russian Empire with 35,000 granite and stone buildings. Peter asked many famous foreign architects such as Rastrelli in Italy, Schluter in Germany, Tressini in Switzerland, Le Blond in France and produced Petrodvorets of Peter's Summer Palace.

On the land of the Baltic Sea in the war with Sweden, I decided to build a new city. I named St. Petersburg the new capital of Russia (Moscow is the former capital). During the Russian Revolution, the name of St. Petersburg has changed to Leningrad. After the Russian revolution, the name returned to St. Petersburg. Peter, I chose to build St. Petersburg very wetland. Peter I forced thousands of serfs or Russian farmers to drain the swamp. Meanwhile, many serfs passed away, but Peter I got his own town and called it the "window on the west side". He invited many Western European architects to St. Petersburg to help him design any part of the city. As the Palace of Versailles became the symbol of Louis XIV and French absoluteism, St. Petersburg is a symbol of Peter I and Russian absoluteism.

St. Petersburg was built by the Peter King of the West from the beginning, and it showed the growing status of the Russian Empire from the outset in the world from the beginning. Carefully coordinated by Peter's successor, they hired many European architects to add a wonderful palace and cathedral to the city layout, St. Petersburg became the capital of Romanov's show After the revolution , I returned to Moscow. Despite the heritage of history, St. Petersburg still feels the capital city of the empire, a city that has been frozen most of the time.