Petrograd

[ pe-truh-grad; Russian pyi-truh-graht ]

noun

1. former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg ( def 2 ).

Petrograd

/ pɪtraˈɡrat; ˈpɛtrəʊˌɡræd /

noun

1. a former name (1914–24) of Saint Petersburg

Example Sentences

Of course, when my sister went to Petrograd she was no longer under my immediate care and I was left all alone.

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And as in danzig thought he stoodThe petrograd, with eyes of flame, Came ypring through the cracow wood,And longwied as it came.

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His knowledge of out-of-the-way places in different parts of the world—Paris, Petrograd—is not usual.

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When owing to the illness of her old mother she was compelled to return to Petrograd what relief we all felt!

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In the hospital at Petrograd they had been, I gathered, "all serious and old," had treated her I fancy with some sternness.

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