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David P
Dec 19, 2017

It was an embodiment of his policy of modernising Russia by adopting the culture of the West rather than the East.

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Peter's experiences in the West as a young man convinced him that the future of Russia lay in this direction. On his return he set about modernising Russian society within this context. St Petersburg was built as the new capital bearing his name as a symbol of this process.

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