After the collapse of the USSR, could Leningrad have been renamed back to Petrograd instead of St. Petersburg? It is my understanding that the name was changed from St. Petersburg to Petrograd at the outbreak of WWI due to cheap nationalism - making the city name sound more Russian and less German. Could the name Petrograd have been resurrected after Russia's return to capitalism, though (probably for much the reason, i.e. exhibiting some Russian nationalism)? Was it ever seriously considered, and were there any particular reasons why Sankt-Peterburg was chosen over Petrograd in 1991, aside from the fact that it had been the city's name for a much longer period of time?