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One moment we are considering what it might mean to replace the soundtrack of a film set in Petrograd in 1917 with something else.

Kornilov’s crack cavalry division stopped just outside Petrograd in the face of sabotage from left-wing railway workers and entreaties from civil society leaders.

The capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, was renamed Petrograd in 1914 because “burg” sounded too German.

The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations.

In “Chimes,” Fitch follows Marina from the Russian countryside back to Petrograd, where she meets literary luminaries like Maxim Gorky.