Peterburg

— This is the city of my prewar childhood, and for me personally it will remain Leningrad until my death. As for many old residents of Peterburg it remained Sankt-Peterburg until they died. To Aleksandr Benua, of all the mistakes of the “old” regime in Russia, it seemed that “the least justifiable [was] its betrayal of Peterburg. Nicholas II thought that he fully expressed his heart-felt accord with the people when he expressed hostility to Peterburg, but thereby he also turned his back on the very Peter the Great, the one who was the real creator of his autocratic majesty.[…]”