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“andrey biely”

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  • St. Petersburg

    by Andrey Biely ...
    Translated by John Cournos ...
    A landmark in Russian literature hailed as "one of the four great masterpieces of twentieth-century prose" by Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita.In this incomparable novel of the seething revolutionary Russia of 1905, Andrey Biely 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 ... Read more

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  • The State Counsellor

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