Petrograd
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In the October Revolution in 1917, Lenin led a coup and seized power from the other political factions in Petrograd.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
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
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 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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