what was st petersburg renamed
Will be different as often assumed, has Peter the Great, the city is not named after himself, but after his patron saint, the apostle Simon Peter. After the fortress the Dutch name St. Pieterburch wore, it was early in the German St. Petersburg renamed. After the outbreak of the First World War on 18 August 1914, the German name to Petrograd â literally, âPeter cityâ â Russified. After Leninâs death in 1924 the city was on 26 January 1924 in Leningrad renamed.