Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) (1880-1934) was one of the key figures of the Silver Age, a symbolist writer, mystic and experimenter.Petersburg in the novel of the same name is a painful and fascinating city, a dream city, a hallucination city, he is also the main character of the work. Against the backdrop of majestic architecture, human destinies collide. The revolutionary Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov was entrusted with a terrible task — to kill his father, a senator.According to the author, this is the final chord of the myth of St. Petersburg, created over the course of a century by the geniuses of Russian culture: Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky. The city on the Neva River is described by White as a symbol of the precarious state in which Russia found itself at the beginning of the 20th century.The text is written in rhythmic prose, in which poetic tropes are guessed.Nabokov called the novel the third masterpiece of world literature of the 20th century, after Joyce's Ulysses and Kafka's Metamorphosis.The full unedited version of the novel is published in this edition.With care for the eyes! The edition has a large font for easy reading.