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.[…]”

1991, JPRS Report: Soviet Union, Springfield, Va.: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 99, column 1

Kozlov I. 1871. Astronomicheskie nablyudeniya dlya opredeleniya geogreficheskogo polozheniya mest i azimutov, proizvedennye vo vremya plavaniya Velikogo Knyazya Alekseya Aleksandrovicha rechnym putyom iz Peterburga v Arkhangelsk, Belym morem i Severnym Ledovitym Okeanom v 1870 godu (Astronomical observations for geographic location of places and azimuths performed during the voyage of Grand Duke Aleksey Aleksandrovich along the inland water-way from Peterburg to Arkhangelsk, in the White Sea and Arctic Ocean in 1870). Sankt-Peterburg. pp. 1–124. (In Russian)

2000, Heritage of the Russian Arctic: Research, Conservation, and International Co-operation […], Moscow: Ecopros Publishers, →ISBN, page 98

Slava Bogu, thanks to God, that at least the Romanovs had finally been laid to rest in an Orthodox service just last month in Sankt-Peterburg. Misha had procured a videotape of the funeral, and May and he had watched it over and over, all of which filled them both with a sense of peace. And then a mere three weeks after the funeral in Peterburg, May herself had died, content with the knowledge that the revolution that had burned across their homeland was done and over.

2003, Robert Alexander, chapter 8, in The Kitchen Boy, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 88