to rename St. Petersburg to Petrograd,

把圣彼得堡重命名为彼得格勒
because it was more Russian.

因为这更加俄国化
But he believed, and I've already spoken about this a little bit,

但是他坚信我也曾经说过一点
that the heart of the empire was Moscow,

这个帝国的心脏是莫斯科
because it was the religious capital of the empire,

因为它是这个帝国的宗教首都
and that the skyline was dotted with churches

并且天际线上教堂的尖顶零次栉比
and not by government buildings.

并不是被政府的办公楼占据
Part of having a modern army

而要拥有一支现代军队
and a modern navy was you had to have a bureaucracy.

和现代海军就不得不拥有一套官僚机构
Petrograd was a bureaucratized city and

彼得格勒是一个官僚化的城市并且
"Not truly Russian in its heart and in its spirit."

"真正的俄国并不在其心和精神中"
He didn't spend much time in the famous winter palace,

他没有花太多的时间在那所著名的冬宫中