Name: Petersburg (Peterburg)
Brand: Azbuka
SKU: 9573501403438
Price: 13.99 GBP
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Author: Andrey Belyy
ISBN: 9785389102460

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This annotated edition of Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, one of the central works of Russian Silver Age literature, is presented to the reader. This book combines a symbolist reinterpretation of the two-hundred-year-old cultural mythology of Petersburg with the author's original perspective on the revolutionary events of the early 20th century. The novel's inspiring 'inspiration of horror' (Vyach. Ivanov) unexpectedly reveals a metaphysical, 'otherworldly,' 'cosmic' dimension to Russian history and national psychology.

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Andrei Bely (a pseudonym; real name Boris Nikolayevich Bugaev) was a Russian writer, poet, critic, and versifier; one of the leading figures of Russian Symbolism.

He was born into the family of Professor Nikolai Vasilyevich Bugaev, a famous mathematician and philosopher, president of the Moscow Mathematical Society (1891–1903), the most prominent representative of the Moscow philosophical and mathematical school. Until the age of twenty-six, Boris lived in the very center of Moscow, on Arbat Street. The apartment where he spent his childhood and youth is now a memorial apartment.…

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