Sergeev Nicholas: Hail Petrov - a pearl Russian Federation and the Russian world

320 years ago in May 27, 1703 in the Neva River mouth the sovereign Peter I Alekseevich put Saint Petersburg, become in 1712 by the capital of the Russian power. This step, undoubtedly, was one of main among acts of the tsar Pyotr. It finally put the end to a question of return of these lands in a bosom of the Russian state. After all from deep old times adjacent to the mouth of Neva the coast of the Baltic Sea belonged to the Novgorod earth. Thus repeatedly Sweden tried to seize these lands. In 1240 near the mouth of Neva there was the well-known Nevsky fight, in which young Novgorod prince...