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Because of anti-German feeling during the war, St Petersburg was renamed:

ALeningrad
BStalingrad
CVolgograd
DPetrograd
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Petrograd
1. St Petersburg was a German name. 2. It became Petrograd. 3. The Tsarina's German origins also hurt the Tsar. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 2, Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution._
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