Saint Petersburg
City
Port city on the Neva founded by Peter the Great in 1703. It was the Russian capital for most of the imperial period and was renamed twice in the 20th century.
Names
- August 31, 1914 – January 26, 1924 PetrogradRenamed to sound less German at the start of World War I
- January 26, 1924 – September 6, 1991 LeningradRenamed after Lenin's death
Held by
- 1789 – September 14, 1917 Russian Empire
- September 14, 1917 – November 7, 1917 Russia
- December 6, 1917 – December 30, 1922 Russia
- December 30, 1922 – December 25, 1991 Soviet Union
- since December 26, 1991 Russia
Capital of
- November 2, 1721 – 1728 Russian Empire
- 1732 – September 14, 1917 Russian Empire
- March 15, 1917 – November 7, 1917 Russian Provisional Government
- September 14, 1917 – March 12, 1918 Russia The Bolshevik government moved to Moscow in March 1918
Events here 21
- December 26, 1825 Decembrist revolt
- December 29, 1837 Fire in the Winter Palace
- March 3, 1861 Emancipation reform of 1861
- December 11, 1868 Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868
- May 7, 1875 Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)
- 1881 Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)
- March 13, 1881 Assassination of Alexander II of Russia
- June 9, 1896 Yamagata–Lobanov Agreement
- January 22, 1905 Bloody Sunday
- January 22, 1905 – June 16, 1907 Russian Revolution of 1905
- August 31, 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention
- December 30, 1916 Assassination of Grigori Rasputin
- March 8, 1917 – June 16, 1923 Russian Revolution
- March 8–16, 1917 February Revolution
- July 1917 July Days
- September 10–13, 1917 Kornilov affair
- November 7–8, 1917 October Revolution
- January 19, 1918 Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly
- September 8, 1941 – January 27, 1944 Siege of Leningrad
- April 3, 2017 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing
- April 2, 2023 Assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky