The/Petersburg Silver Dove (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Boris Nikolayevich Bugaev
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Work: Symbolic allegory
- Time of Work: , c. 1900; , 1905
- Setting: , the village of Tselebeyevo and the town of Likhov, Russia; , St. Petersburg
- Principal Characters: Pyotr Daryalsky, Katya Gugolevo, Matryona, Kudeyarov, Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, Sofya Petrovna Likhutina, Alexander Ivanovich Dudkin
- Genres: Long fiction, Symbolist literature
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutions, Poetry or poets, Bombs, East and West, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia, Likhov, Russia, Tselebeyevo, Russia
The Novels
In an introduction to The Silver Dove, Andrey Bely explained that it would be the first volume of a trilogy under the general title “East or West” and that many characters would be continued throughout the three novels. The second work, Petersburg, however, carries over none of the characters from The Silver Dove; the two novels are connected by their mutual concern with revolutionary politics and by their dense poetic style. The projected third volume was tentatively entitled “The Invisible City,” but there is no evidence of its...
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