Associations to the word «Petrograd»

Wiktionary

PETROGRAD, proper noun. (historical) name given to the city of Saint Petersburg from the time of Russia's involvement in World War I until Lenin's death in 1924.

Dictionary definition

PETROGRAD, noun. A city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne