The first stones of this city were laid on Zayachy island after the fall of Nienshants, and the command of this city was given to Popov and Zhdanov, who eventually had it covered in vegetable gardens.
The first stones of this city were laid on Zayachy island after the fall of Nienshants, and the command of this city was given to Popov and Zhdanov, who eventually had it covered in vegetable gardens. Prince Alexander Menshikov was made governor of this city, which in 1905 was site of a massacre when workers presented a petition to guards at the Winter Palace called "Bloody Sunday." Besieged during Operation Barbarossa by the Nazis, it got supplies in through Lake Ladoga, which feeds the Neva river. For 10 points, name this Russian city that replaced Moscow as the Tsarist capital.
The first stones of this city were laid on Zayachy island after the fall of Nienshants, and the command of this city was given to Popov and Zhdanov, who eventually had it covered in vegetable gardens.
{St. Petersburg} [or {Leningrad}; or {Petrograd}; or {Sankt Peterburg}]