You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.
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Question: Category: FORMER WORLD CAPITALS 
Clue: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city

Answer: st. petersburg


Question: Category: PHRASE ORIGINS 
Clue: In 1945 George Orwell coined this 2-word phrase for "an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity"

Answer: cold war


Question: Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE 
Clue: An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating"

Answer:
edgar allan poe