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Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.

It is politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city).

Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May.

In 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, in 1924 to Leningrad, and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg.

Between 1713 and 1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of imperial Russia.

In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow.

The Russian Empire (also known as Russia') was a state that existed from 1721 until it was overthrown by the short-lived February Revolution in 1917.

One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires.

The rise of the Russian Empire happened in association with the decline of neighboring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Persia and the Ottoman Empire.

It played a major role in 1812–14 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe, and expanded to the west and south.