Petrograd

[Alina Israeli]

>The name of Petrograd is mentioned even in works of Derzhavin and Baratynskij.

So we have proof that in the poetic language St.Petersburg was referred to
as Petrograd, grad Petrov and maybe something else. But do you think it
corresponds to Jules Levin's "Everyone calls the city I live in Ellay, even
tho the only official name is Los Angeles"? Do we have any evidence in
prose, letters or memoirs that people called it Petrograd? Did anybody
write in a letter "write to me in Petrograd (or from Petrograd)"? We do
know that the city was referred to as Piter at times, and people as pitercy
(piterskie rabochie, piterskie mal'chishki etc.), probably came from the
lower classes.

A.N. Ostrovskij: Вы, питерские, думаете, что вас и рукой не достанешь, что
вам у нас и пары нет, а вот есть! (Volki i ovcy)

Pisemskij: Шельма твой Анашка, питерский, ведь, кулак, распоясал мошну на
один полштоф да и думает: баста! (Gor'kaja sud'bina)

Zamjatin: питерская вертунья оса (Rus', but this is already 1923).

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 Alina Israeli
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