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St. Petersburg is a famous Russian city on the Neva River near the Baltic Sea. The first name of the city was St. Petersburg after the tsar Peter the Great who it. In 1914 the city the name Petrograd, but its name was to Leningrad in 1924. It St. Petersburg again in 1991. Peter the Great founded the city in 1703 and the from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 1712. The new city became home to Russian tsars and to grow fast. Soon the Winter Palace in Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square with a tall column in its centre. It is a huge palace nowadays. You can see the famous

monument to Peter the Great on the bank of the Neva River. St. Petersburg is for its palaces and bridges (there are 342 bridges in the city), its churches, theatres and museums, its wonderful parks, and gardens. The Summer Garden is one of them. Every year a lot of tourists to see this beautiful city.