![]() It is also an impressionistic, exhilarating panorama of the city itself, watched over by the bronze statue of Peter the Great, as it tears itself apart. Petersburg is a story of suspense, family dysfunction, patricide, conspiracy and revolution. But the official is Nikolai's cold, unyielding father, Apollon, and in twenty-four hours the bomb will explode. An impressionable young university student, Nikolai, becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organization, which plans to assassinate a high government official with a time bomb. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff with an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution. ![]()
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