>>Question: 59° 54' 45" N, 26° 15' 44" E is not the location of
>>Petrograd (in context I'm assuming this is the city usually known as
>>St. Petersburg in English)
>
>The real St. Petersburg was called Petrograd from 1914 (when Tsar
>Nicholas II changed it at the outbreak of World War I, to make it
>sound less German) to 1924 (when Lenin died and Stalin changed it to
>Leningrad in his honor).

old joke:

a man is filling out a Form for Pension...

Name: Ivan Petrovitch
City of Birth: Petrograd
City of Schooling: St. Petersburg
City of Employment: Leningrad
City of Current Residence: Stalingrad

... he's lived in the same apartment his whole life.

-Z

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