1. The pre-revolutionary name was Tsaritsyn; Volgograd was bestowed by Khruschev after Josif Vissarionovich becane a tad unpopular.
2. The great city of the Volga has never been named after a Swedish car manufacturer (you're thinking of Saablomov, PSD).
3. Simple(?) explanation for J V Dzugashvili having a city named after him; JurisFiction serves all universes, not just Thursday's - and we know 'ours' exists
somewhere because Colonel Next offers to hide Thursday in it. So JF operatives can transact Outland business in any one of an infinite number of Outlands ... provided they have literature, of course.
4. I have speculated before on biographical characters being treated as fictional, because, in a sense, they are (especially if auto-biographical). I would like to see Martin Gilbert's saintly WSC meet Clive Ponting's villainous one! FWIW I think biographs exist within BookWorld, possibly in a division of the Library we haven't seen yet (and that Jasper hasn't thought of a good pun to name it with). See 'Bookshop Story' in WN-1 for my take on this possibility. Link
here.
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