Hey,
Your teacher should not even be asking political questions like this, it’s simply manipulative to students and tends to have a biased answer from the teacher.
L--the new capital was St. Petersburg.
This city was obtained from war with Sweden and gave Peter the Great and Russia access to a warm-water port on the Baltic Sea. He believed Russia needed a modern capital with the ability to trade with the West.
<span>struggles over the line of succession
is the write answer
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