What is the history of St. Petersburg? When was it built? What does the Amber Room have to do with this?

The city was built in 1703 under the order of Russian czar Peter I, and was named after the first building in the city, St. Peter Paul's fortress, which guarded the mouth of the neva river River. The name of the city is directly translated from German "Saint Petersburg". 19 14. After the outbreak of World War I, anti-Germanic sentiment appeared in Russia, and the czar government renamed St. Petersburg Petrograd. Later, the Soviet Union was founded. In order to commemorate Lenin's revolution in this city during the October Revolution, after Lenin's death in 1924, the name of this city was changed to Leningrad. 199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the old name of St. Petersburg was restored by referendum.

(Note: "Geller" means "city" in Russian. )

The biggest difference between St. Petersburg and other European cities is that all European capitals have one word and only one meaning; However, the name of St. Petersburg comes from three different sources: "Saint", which comes from Latin and means "sacred", and "Peter", the name of the apostle, which is interpreted as "stone" in Greek and "castle" in German or Dutch, is called "city"; In this way, the name of St. Petersburg not only coincides with the name of Peter the Great, but also shows that this young city contains unusual cultural background sources. It not only follows the cultural traditions of Germany and the Netherlands, but also the symbolic significance of the city is closely related to ancient Rome with St. Peter as the patron saint. Interestingly, even the emblem of St. Petersburg, a sea anchor that crosses left and right, is very similar to the emblem of the Vatican in Rome.