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The Romanovs and Peter the Great: Building St. Petersburg from the Swamp
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Peter the Great's audacious project to build a new capital, St. Petersburg, on the marshy delta of the Neva River. They discuss the city's founding in 1703 during the Great Northern War, the forced labor of hundreds of thousands of serfs and Swedish prisoners, the role of Dutch and Italian architects like Domenico Trezzini, and the symbolic meaning of the city as Russia's 'window to the West.' Lucas explains the engineering challenges of draining swamps, the high death toll, and the cultural transformation Peter enforced—from…
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