Excerpt from Russia His methods, in accordance with the needs of the situ ation, were drastic. He uprooted the Government from its old and sleepy centre at Moscow and forcibly planted it on the swampy banks of the Neva, where, at infinite cost of life and labour, be caused a new capital to arise. St. Petersburg was to be the great watch-tower from which Russia could discern and communicate with the countries of the west. Advisedly it was built upon the sea. Peter was a mighty ship-builder and created a Russian navy, which ...
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Excerpt from Russia His methods, in accordance with the needs of the situ ation, were drastic. He uprooted the Government from its old and sleepy centre at Moscow and forcibly planted it on the swampy banks of the Neva, where, at infinite cost of life and labour, be caused a new capital to arise. St. Petersburg was to be the great watch-tower from which Russia could discern and communicate with the countries of the west. Advisedly it was built upon the sea. Peter was a mighty ship-builder and created a Russian navy, which battled with the Swedes and wrested from them the control of the Gulf of Finland. The Great Plain needed an outlet on the sea, through which life-giving streams of foreign thought and enter prise might infiltrate into Russia and energize her as with sea breezes. To bastion his new capital he con quered the outlying portions of Finland from the Swedes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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