What was the main reason for russian expansion in the 1800

Attempt to gain a warm water port

Explanation:

Peter the Great and Catherine II added lands on the Baltic and Black seas to try to gain warm-water ports. Peter failed, but Catherine succeeded by beating the Ottoman empire in the 1800s.

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