What's in a name? (Petrograd)

[Jules Levin]

Dear Seelangers:

I wonder if someone can settle a dispute I am having on another 
list?  The disputant insists that the name
Petrograd for St Petersburg appeared in *usage* only in 1914, when it 
became official, whereas I am convinced that it was
being used unofficially somewhat earlier.  My opinion is based only 
on my mother's passing on my grandmother's stories
from there--she arrived in America in 1891 at the age of 15.
Usage in literary works would certainly help to nail this down...
Jules Levin
   

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