{"product_id":"petersburg-9780253034113","title":"Petersburg","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrei Bely's novel \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eSet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrei Bely (1880-1934), born Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, was a Russian novelist, poet, and literary critic. His other works include \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Dove \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKotik Letaev\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert A. Maguire was the Boris Bakhmeteff Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University. He was author of \u003ci\u003eExploring Gogol \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRed Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920's\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn E. Malmstad is Samuel Hazzard Cross Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eAndrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlga Matich is Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She is editor of \u003ci\u003ePetersburg\/Petersburg: Novel and City 1900 - 1921 \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eErotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543497019666,"sku":"9780253034113","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5440c7a9-1651-4e9b-bd09-ce8c0d34c3af.jpg?v=1731510145","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/petersburg-9780253034113","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}