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With his stentorian gaze and minimalist technique, Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988) presided over the Leningrad Philharmonic for almost 50 years...
It has been said that some people born in Petrograd (as St. Petersburg was renamed with a Slavic calque in World War I) have lived out their lives in Leningrad and will die in Sankt-Peterburg.
The renaming of both Leningrad and Stalingrad was historically and psychologically costly because nothing that has happened in either city amounts to nearly so much as their roles in World War II.
Going back to Sankt-Peterburg from Leningrad was reversion with a vengeance, literally.
In the first photograph, Stalin is shown in Leningrad in 1926, posed at a worktable with three cadres; one of them had just been made first secretary of the local party.