The city over the Swedish Neva. Petersburg celebrates the 315th anniversary
Three hundred and fifteen years ago, at the mouth of the Neva River, the Russian king Peter I founded the city of St. Petersburg. Formally, the city of 18 years was in the Swedish territory - the Nistadsky peace treaty, according to which it went to Russia, was signed only in 1721. Nevertheless, there is evidence that already in 1704 Peter announced his desire to transfer the capital of the Russian Empire here, in 1712 the royal court settled in St.