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Why was St. Petersburg founded?

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Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703, Saint Petersburg was capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years (1712–1728, 1732–1918). St.Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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