Definitions for "Petersburg"
Town in the Russia and in the Republic of South Africa. South African Petersburg has nor white nights, nor Russian cold in it.
Petersburg or St. Petersburg, Russian: Петербург (1913, revised 1922) is the title of Andrei Bely's masterpiece, a Symbolist work that foreshadows Joyce's Modernist ambitions. For various reasons the novel never received much attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written, after Joyce was already established as an important writer.
the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee