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[[File:Orelov view.png|thumb|250px|Nikolai Orelov looking over Saint Petersburg]] | [[File:Orelov view.png|thumb|250px|Nikolai Orelov looking over Saint Petersburg]] | ||
'''Saint Petersburg''', also known as '''Petrograd''' from 1914 and '''Leningrad''' from 1924, before reverting to its original name in 1991, is a city located in western [[Russia]]. | '''Saint Petersburg''', also known as '''Petrograd''' from 1914 and '''Leningrad''' from 1924, before reverting to its original name in 1991, is a city located in western [[Russia]]. | ||
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the [[Narodnaya Volya]] | During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the [[Narodnaya Volya]], an orgnization allied to the [[Russian Brotherhood of Assassins|Russian Assassins]], was active in Saint Petersburg.<ref name="Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Revision as of 19:47, 20 May 2018
Saint Petersburg, also known as Petrograd from 1914 and Leningrad from 1924, before reverting to its original name in 1991, is a city located in western Russia.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Narodnaya Volya, an orgnization allied to the Russian Assassins, was active in Saint Petersburg.[1]
History
Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703 by the fourth 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 had 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 those 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.[1]
The city was expanded during the 18th and 19th centuries. When the 20th century turned, it was renamed Petrograd since Saint 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.[1]
Notably, the Russian Assassin Nikolai Orelov visited the city on at least one occasion, during the Russian Revolution of 1917.[1]
In March 2014, while the Russian Assassin Galina Voronina enlisted the aid of - and later joined - the crew of the Altaïr II, the ship was docked in the city port for at least three weeks before setting sail on 26 March.[2]
Gallery
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The Palace Square during the Russian Revolution -
Bolsheviks gathering in Petrograd -
Bolsheviks marching through Petrograd
