num_pages: 336
description: In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Bely plays ingeniously on the great themes of Russian history and literature as he tells the mesmerizing tale of Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, a high-ranking Tsarist official, and his dilettante son, Nikolai, an aspiring terrorist, whose first assignment is to assassinate his father.
language: English
title: St. Petersburg
titlecomplete: St. Petersburg
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Russian Literature, Russia, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 5188
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premi de Traducció Vidal Alcover
category: Miquel Cabal Guarro, awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: 20th-Century Russian Literature for John Elsworth 
publisher: Grove Press