Saint Petersburg

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[[File:Orelov view.png|thumb|250px|[[Nikolai Orelov]] looking over Saint Petersburg]]

'''Saint Petersburg''' (later named '''Petrograd''' in 1914 and '''Leningrad''' in 1924) was a city located within the [[Russia]]n Empire.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the [[Narodnaya Volya]] - the Russian [[Assassins]] sect - was active in Saint Petersburg.

==History==
St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 by the third Romanov Tsar, Peter the Great, who wanted to Westernize and reform Russia. He designed to the city to be modeled on the great cities he'd seen in Europe during his tours there earlier in life. Peter called his new city his "Window on the West", and made it the new capital of the Russian Empire, much to the enmity of the conservative elite who still lived in [[Moscow]]. The city was given a more menacing nickname by the poor souls who were forced to build it: "the City of Bones". This was appropriate, as work crews died in their thousands from disease, starvation, and cold.

The city was expanded during the 18th and 19th centuries. During the I World War, it was renamed Petrograd since St. Petersburg sounded too German. After the fall of the Russian Empire, it was renamed Leningrad, after [[Vladimir Lenin]]. The city would hold this name until the fall of the Soviet Union.

==Gallery==

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Squ Revol 2.png|The Palace Square during the Russian Revolution
Squ Revol 1.png|Bolsheviks gathering in Petrograd
Lenin.png|Bolsheviks marching through Petrograd
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==Reference==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''

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