Petrograd
Americannoun
noun
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One moment we are considering what it might mean to replace the soundtrack of a film set in Petrograd in 1917 with something else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
Kornilov’s crack cavalry division stopped just outside Petrograd in the face of sabotage from left-wing railway workers and entreaties from civil society leaders.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
In 1990, when I was in college, I spoke on the phone to the Russian-born musical polymath Nicolas Slonimsky, who recalled walking the streets of Petrograd on the first day of the Bolshevik Revolution.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
The Committee on Public Information, which operated as an American propaganda ministry during the war, sent Edgar Sisson, a former muckraking journalist, to Petrograd in November 1917, before the Bolsheviks seized power.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2018
A Provisional Government took the place of imperial rule in Petrograd and granted equality in law to Russian women, giving women the right to vote and to hold office.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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