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
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
Born in a rapidly changing St. Petersburg, which was called Petrograd from 1914 to 1924, Ustvolskaya was part of the earliest generation of Russians to come of age after the 1917 revolution.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2019
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
The capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, was renamed Petrograd in 1914 because “burg” sounded too German.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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