What's in a name? (Petrograd)

[Vladimir Shatsev]

Dear Seelangers,

We can find Petrograd in Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman:îÁÄ ÏÍÒÁÞÅÎÎÙÍ 
ðÅÔÒÏÇÒÁÄÏÍ äÙÛÁÌ ÎÏÑÂÒØ ÏÓÅÎÎÉÍ ÈÌÁÄÏÍ- Nad omrachennim Petrogradom dishal 
noyabr' osennim hladom.It is 1831.Long before WW I.

Vladimir Shatsev



>From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
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>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] What's in a name? (Petrograd)
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:58:35 -0400
>
> >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,
>
>
>Exactly. The British dinasty changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to
>Windsor only in 1917 due to the war with the (first) cousin Kaiser, and
>St.Petersburg Russianized its name in 1914, at the beginning of the war
>(with the same cousin-in-law-Kaiser).
>
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