Petersburg. White A.

Andrey Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) (1880-1934)-one of the key figures of the Silver Age, a symbolist, mystic and experimenter.

Petersburg in the novel of the same name is a painful and bewitching, a city -one city, a chandelier city, he is also the main character of the work. Against the background of magnificent architecture, human destinies are faced. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov was entrusted with a terrible business-to kill his father-senator.

according to the author’s plan-this is the final chord of the myth of St. Petersburg, who has been created by geniuses of Russian culture: Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky. The city on the Neva is described by white as a symbol of the shaky state in which Russia was at the beginning of the 20th century.

Initially, the novel was called the "Pancake of the Caretra", the name "Petersburg" was prompted by Vyacheslav Ivanov.

The text is written in rhythmic prose, in which poetic paths are guessed.

Nabokov called the novel the third masterpiece of world literature of the 20th century - after the "Ulysses" of Joyce and the "transformation" of Kafka.

in this edition in this edition A complete non -edited version of the novel is published.