{"id":109697,"date":"2017-12-09T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:54:23","slug":"foundation-of-saint-petersburg-1703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/foundation-of-saint-petersburg-1703\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation of Saint Petersburg, 1703"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DO9_HI9VXyc\/Td5Q7QEE7HI\/AAAAAAAAB5M\/V_X-t_9us3U\/s1600\/Coat_of_Arms_of_Saint_Petersburg_%25282003%2529.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"190\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611011164604787826\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coat_of_arms_of_saint_petersburg_252820032529-1.png\" class=\"wp-image-109698\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 171px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 162px;\" \/><\/a>For  the first twenty years of the eighteenth century Russia and Sweden  fought a war for supremacy over the Baltic Sea. On 1st May 1703, the  forces of the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, captured Nyenskans, a  Swedish fortress that protected the mouth of the Neva river on the coast  of the Gulf of Finland. To further protect this strategically important  location, Peter decided to build a fortress city further down the river  at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Zayachii ostrov<\/span> (Hare Island).<\/p>\n<p>Work  on the Peter and Paul Fortress  started a few weeks later, on 27th May  1703. Initially comprising six bastions constructed of earth and timber  it was later replaced by a stone building. This citadel never saw  military action, but rather became the centre of the city of St.  Petersburg &#8211; named after the apostle Peter.<\/p>\n<p>The Tsar conscripted  serfs from across Russia to work on the city, which quickly grew around  Trinity Square on the right bank of the Neva. The city was the  centrepiece of Peter&#8217;s modernisation programme and as such he made it  his capital in 1712, an honour the city enjoyed for over two hundred  years, except for one four-year period (1728-32) when Peter II made  Moscow his capital.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first twenty years of the eighteenth century Russia and Sweden fought a war for supremacy over the Baltic Sea. On 1st May 1703, the forces of the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, captured Nyenskans, a Swedish fortress that protected the mouth of the Neva river on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}