The Story of Sergei Petrovich

In Nietzsche’s philosophy, Sergey Petrovich was most captivated by the idea of the Übermensch and everything else that Nietzsche wrote about strong, free, and spirit-bold people. Sergey Petrovich knew German poorly—at the level of secondary school—so the translation was given to him with great difficulty.

Novikov, a comrade of Sergey Petrovich, noticeably made things easier—he and Sergey Petrovich lived in the same room for a year and a half. Novikov spoke German excellently, read a lot, and had a good command of philosophy…