 Molotov worked as a so @-@ called " professional revolutionary " for the next several years , writing for the party press and attempting to better organize the underground party . He moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1914 at the time of the outbreak of World War I. It was in Moscow the following year that Molotov was again arrested for his party activity , this time being deported to Irkutsk in eastern Siberia . In 1916 he escaped from his Siberian exile and returned to the capital city , now called Petrograd by the Tsarist regime , which thought the name St. Petersburg sounded excessively German . 
