1898 map of St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, from a German atlas. Central St Petersburg, or Petrograd, is on the Neva River. Key landmarks include the Peter and Paul Fortress, which served as a prison, Nevski Prospect, a primary boulevard south of the Fortress, the Finland Train Station, east of the Fortress, where Lenin made his triumphal return, the Tauride (Taurisches) Palace, which housed the Duma and later the Petrograd Soviet.

St. Petersburg by Andrey Biely; Translated by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey.

With Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, 'one of the four great masterpieces of twentieth-century prose.' Vladimir Nabokov

Nikolai Apolonovich Ableukhov is tasked by terrorists with assassinating his father, Apollon Apolonovich Ableukhov, a high government official.

Publisher: Grove Press, 1959

Copyright: 1959 by Grove Press, Inc.