Russia at Troynovant:
Russia, Russian Empire,
Soviet Union (USSR),
successor states;
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[Sicilia. A court of justice.]

Hermione:

The Emperor of Russia was my father:
O that he were alive, and here beholding
His daughter's trial; that he did but see
The flatness of my misery — yet with eyes
Of pity, not revenge.

William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, 3.2.117-121
  

The German encirclement of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] was the longest and most lethal siege in history at 872 days. When it began on September 8, 1941, Leningrad was the largest city — at 2.5 million inhabitants — ever to endure complete envelopment. Yet amid Nazi bombing, artillery strikes, starvation, disease, the cold, and the desperate effort to evacuate the blockaded city, Leningrad was among the first major sieges of the twentieth century to fail.

Nearly four million Russian soldiers were killed, wounded, went missing, or were captured in the fighting in and around Leningrad and on the nearby Baltic front during the siege. Indeed, the Red Army suffered 14 percent of all its World War II casualties defending the single city and key port on the Gulf of Finland. Russian dead in and around Leningrad were four times greater than the death toll of all Americans lost in World War II.

[Leningrad was defended for its very existence: the German goal had been total.] "The Fuehrer has decided to erase the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth," read a Nazi directive.

Victor Davis Hanson
"Sieges", p312-313
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict
Was Fought and Won  (2017)