Land used for it was captured at battles for Noteburg and the fortress of Nienshants, and officially transferred at the Treaty of Nystad. Dominated by the Neoclassical architecture of Giacomo Quarenghi, it received the former harbor traffic of Arkhangelsk. It lost 660 thousand people during a nine hundred day siege in World War II, and perhaps more during its construction. For 10 points, name this "window on Europe," built by forced labor and once renamed Leningrad and Petrograd.
Land used for it was captured at battles for Noteburg and the fortress of Nienshants, and officially transferred at the Treaty of Nystad. Dominated by the Neoclassical architecture of Giacomo Quarenghi, it received the former harbor traffic of Arkhangelsk. It lost 660 thousand people during a nine hundred day siege in World War II, and perhaps more during its construction. For 10 points, name this "window on Europe," built by forced labor and once renamed Leningrad and Petrograd.
Land used for it was captured at battles for Noteburg and the fortress of Nienshants, and officially transferred at the Treaty of Nystad.
{Saint Petersburg} [or {Sankt Peterburg}; accept {Leningrad} before it is read; accept {Petrograd} before it is read]