Name is Petersburg

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Our film is about who and how of nineteen ninety-one returned to the capital of White Nights, the name of St. Petersburg.
The city was founded by Peter the Great three hundred and eight years ago. The city was named in honor of St. Peter, and as a prototype of his name thrice renounced Jesus Christ, until the cock crowed, and the city on the Neva river thrice changed his own name. In nineteen fourteen he was called Petrograd, since nineteen twenty-fourth - Leningrad.
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