Exercises on the History of Saint Petersburg

The change of the city's name from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, which happened in the beginning of the 20th century, is directly related to which event:

a) Russian Revolution

b) 1905 General Essay

c) Russo-Japanese War

d) World War I

e) Russian Civil War

How did events unfold in Leningrad after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union during World War II?

a) Army Group South was mobilized to attack and conquer Leningrad, while part of the troops were on their way to conquer the nearby oil wells.

b) the Germans invaded the city and carried out a massive massacre of Jews, known as the Babi Yar Massacre.

c) the Germans took over the city quickly, but had to deal with partisan resistance that organized in the forests near Leningrad.

d) conquered the city and handed it over to the Finnish government, their ally, as revenge for the Winter War.

e) the Germans surrounded the city and left it under a siege (of almost 900 days) that aimed to starve the local population to death.

What are the reasons that Tsar Peter the Great ordered the construction of Saint Petersburg in the early 18th century?

a) Peter sought to expand Russia's contacts with Western European powers and sought to have a city that would guarantee him privileged access to the Baltic Sea.

b) Peter ordered the construction of the city in commemoration of a Russian military victory during the Livonian War.

c) Peter had the intention of exploring the mineral resources of northern Russia.

d) Peter ordered the construction of the city only as a form of demonstration of power, based on what tsars used to do in the 16th century.

e) Pedro ordered the construction of the city as a way to meet the interests of carrying out catechesis of peoples who inhabited that region.

In 1905, an extremely important event in Russian history took place in St. Petersburg, which was directly responsible for the beginning of the General Rehearsal of 1905. We are talking about:

a) of the October Revolution

b) from the hijacking of the battleship Potemkin

c) Vladimir Lenin's return to Russia

d) from Bloody Sunday

e) the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War

LETTER D

The change of name from St. Petersburg to Petrograd happened in 1914 because of Russia's involvement in World War I. In that conflict, the Russians declared war on the Germans, and the name change was a result of the anti-Germanism that spread across Russia. The change was made to remove the Germanic influences from the name of the Russian capital (sankt and burg ) and thus the city of Sankt-Peterburg changed its name to Petrograd, which, in Russian, means city of Peter.

LETTER E

The city of Leningrad was besieged in mid-1941, and the Germans imposed a siege in which no one left or entered the city. The Germans' intention, by Hitler's determination, was to let the city starve to death without it being necessary to carry out the attack against the city. This strategy was part of the Hungerplan , a plan by the Nazis to let millions of Slavs starve to death. Thousands of people died from lack of food in Leningrad. There have even been cases of cannibalism.

LETER A

The construction of Saint Petersburg was ordered by Tsar Peter the Great, after that region was conquered by the Russians during the Great Northern War, fought against the Swedes between 1700 and 1721. The city was built to expand Russia's contacts with Western European nations – greatly admired by the Russian Tsar. In addition, the construction of the city guaranteed the Russians strategic access to the Baltic Sea.

LETER D

The event that took place in St. Petersburg and that triggered the 1905 Dress Rehearsal was Bloody Sunday. This event took place on January 9, 1905, when the Russian population gathered in front of the Winter Palace, home of the Russian tsars. The gathered population peacefully protested against the bad working conditions, especially in the city's industries. This protest ended in tragedy when the tsar's troops opened fire on the population, causing the death of dozens of people.