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Petersburg by Andrei Bely, Olga Matich, Robert A. Maguire, John E. Malmstad is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Petersburg about?

<P><P>Andrei Bely's novel <EM>Petersburg</EM> is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.</P><br/><P>Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official–Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.<BR></P></P>

Who reads Petersburg?

Author

Andrei Bely, Olga Matich, Robert A. Maguire, John E. Malmstad

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9782017049364

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.43 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14