A city will be founded here!
Repkin Svyatoslav, 8 years

The city of Peter I grew and flourished with the aid of the tsar himself, as well as the active support of his assistant Alexander Menshikov, but primarily by the efforts of the architect Domenico Trezzini and many other specialists, both Russian and those invited from abroad. They built ships, fortresses and palaces, created parks with fountains, clad embankments of rivers and canals in brick, and built bridges over them. Peter the Great personally supervised the creation of the new capital of the empire.
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