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which new name was given for st . Petersburg after anti German grew high in Russia? |
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Answer» om 1712 until 1918, St. Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire. Peter I (the Great) began the construction of the city as his "Window on the West" in 1703. During the subsequent three centuries, St. Petersburg was identified with the three major forces shaping Russian history: Westernization, industrialization, and revolution. The city was renamed Petrograd in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, because it sounded less German, was then named Leningrad after the death ofVladimir Leninin 1924, and again became St. Petersburg in 1991 when theSoviet Unioncollapsed. Confusingly, the surrounding region (oblast) is still known as Leningrad. Petrograd is the name given to St. Petersburg when anti German sentiments rose high. |
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