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{{Useful Notes}}
{{quote|''"I'll take the first train to St. Petersburg,''
''There's nowhere else I'd rather be."''
|'''[[Havalina Rail Co.]]'''
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Formerly Leningrad. Before that, Petrograd. Before that, St. Petersburg. Before that, ''[[Sweden|Nyenskans]]''.
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{{examples|Appearances of St. Petersburg / Petrograd / Leningrad / St. Petersburg in fiction include:}}
== Film ==
* Seen it a million times in Soviet/Russian cinema. Its representations in Russian fiction can be divided into several categories:
** [[Period Piece
** Dramas about the [[Red October]] and the early years of Soviet Russia.
** [[World War II]] films, focusing on the battles around Leningrad and the 900-day siege.
** Films set in Soviet Leningrad after the war, either playing with its Second City/Cultural Capital status, or painting a [[Darker and Edgier]] picture of urban Soviet life and the countercultures that emerge as a result of it. The latter kind is more typical of [[The Eighties]].
** Films and TV shows set in [[The Nineties]]. In [[The New Russia]] St. Petersburg acquired the
*** By now the "Criminal Capital" image has pretty much become a [[Dead Horse Trope]], unless it was a [[Dead Unicorn Trope]] to begin with - while there was a lot of [[The Mafiya|organised crime]]-related violence in the city in the nineties, the city itself was more of a strategically important piece of "property" than a country-wide criminal control centre.
* Bond [[Rule of Cool|drives]] a [[Tank Goodness|tank]] through the place in ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]''.
* ''[[Anastasia]]''
** Which mostly gets it completely wrong; for example, both the exterior and interior of the Winter Palace bear almost no resemblance to the real thing.
== Literature ==
* ''A Dangerous Climate'', one of [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]'s Saint-Germain novels
* Most of the action in ''Face of the Dark Palmira'', Vladimir Vasilyev's contribution to Sergei Lukyanenko's [[Night Watch (novel)|Night Watch]] series, takes place in St. Petersburg. The city in the novel is [[City Noir|so]] [[Mordor|Dark]] that even the [[Dark Is Not Evil|Dark-sided protagonists]] from other cities feel uneasy about going there.
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