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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.
But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/ Sankt-Peterburg will ever be called Peterston .
This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.
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.