By playing with conventional beliefs, Andreev managed to overturn ideas about what Russian literature could be, shattering the “bourgeois,” rigid way of thinking.
The novel “Sashka Zhegulëv” is a dramatic story about a gymnasium student who chooses the path of revolution, saturated with motifs of retribution, a redeeming sacrifice, the ordeal of a godmother’s suffering, and the theme of Fate (the Rock).