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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.
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.
Building New Factories (1926) and Female Textile Workers (1927) and The Defence of Petrograd (1927) take the conventional subjects their titles indicate and make them new, setting human figures--which are somehow at once photographic and icon-based--in fields of geometric patterns that are nevertheless recognizable as industrial landscapes.