Petrograd
Americannoun
noun
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It was in that volatile period that the charismatic nationalist officer Gen. Lavr Kornilov marched his forces from the front on Petrograd, modern St. Petersburg, the capital at that time.
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
Eventually she returns to Petrograd and takes care of homeless children but soon enough she is swept away to meet the greats of Russian literature, such as Maxim Gorky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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
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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