Petersburg

15 hrs. 54 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Andrei Bely

Narrator Sergey Mikhailovsky

In the novel, Andrey Bely reflects on the “Petersburg period” of Russian history in the context of the fates of the world, including ancient civilizations. An innovator in prose, the author wrote a book—an artistic study of Russia’s historical self-determination—reviving the debate between Slavophiles and Westernizers about the possibility of a “third path” for our country in world history. The unique organization of the text, the combination of the themes of revolution, patricide, and love—as well as the magical for creative imagination name “Petersburg”—invariably captivates readers.

“Ah, Russian people, Russian people! Do not let the crowds of shifting shadows out of the island into your midst; those shadows creep into your bodily dwelling; they penetrate from here into the corners of your soul: you become shadows like the clustered flight of fogs—those fogs have flown ever since from beyond the edge of the earth: from leaden spaces waves of the boiling Balt sail; into that mist, back from eternity, cannon mouths are fixed…”

Andrey Bely

1. The Silver Dove (narrated by Sergey Mikhailovsky) 2. Petersburg (narrated by Alexander Ruzheynikov) 2. Petersburg