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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.
With his stentorian gaze and minimalist technique, Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988) presided over the Leningrad Philharmonic for almost 50 years...
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.
But one can hardly imagine that Sankt-Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/ Sankt-Peterburg will ever be called Peterston .
Nothing laid bare the latent loathing of Communism, even at its best, in Russia so strikingly as the change by referendum from Leningrad to Sankt-Peterburg .