Saint Petersburg

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'''Petrograd''' (Russian: Петроград ''(Petrograd)'') (later '''Saint Petersburg''') was a city within the [[Russia]]n Empire and one of the locations in which the Russian [[Assassin]] headquarters were based, in the early 20th century.

[[Nikolai Orlov]], one of the main characters from ''[[Assassin's Creed comic book mini-series|Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' was an Assassin operating in Petrograd and became a [[Master Assassin]] of the Petrograd Assassin's Guild. It was the birthplace of the [[Russian Revolution]] and capital of the Russian Empire.

==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. When the 20th century turned, 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.

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