Petersburg is a famous Russian novel published in 1913. This work is a masterpiece by the author Andre Bailey. Vladimir Nabakov described the work as one of the four greatest prose works of the twentieth century.
This work is a masterpiece by the author Andre Bailey. Vladimir Nabakov described the work as one of the four greatest prose works of the twentieth century. This work depicts the period of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The main theme is the life of Apollon Apollonovich, a revolutionary who was commissioned to kill his own father.The mystical landscape of Petersburg at that time, the water and the fog are wrapped up in this novel as powerful metaphors. The concept of infinity is used by the novelist as mysticism. This book illuminates the Russian life just before the Russian Revolution.