Dudkin himself answers to a higher power, a man named Lippanchenko who is the leader of their radical group. His father notices these exploits and decides that his son is a scoundrel. Instead of focusing on the immense task he has agreed to undertake he gets himself into the newspaper's gossip columns with his antics and attends a party. Nikolai Apollonovich spends much of his time dressing himself in a red domino costume with a black domino mask, making a fool of himself in front of Sofya Petrovna Likhutina, a woman who has rebuked his flirtations in the past. Just after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is given the task of assassinating his bureaucrat father, Apollon Apollonovich, using a time bomb supplied to him by a fellow radical, Alexander Ivanovich Dudkin. Mikhail Chekhov as Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov ( Second Moscow Art Theatre production of the novel, 1925) Plot summary The novel is the second part of Bely's unfinished trilogy East or West, while The Silver Dove is the first one. The second version is usually considered as inferior to the first one. In the Berlin version Bely changed the foot of his rhythmic prose from anapest to amphibrach, and removed ironical passages related to the revolutionary movement. As Bely noted, "the new edition is a completely new book for the readers of the first edition". In 1922 Bely published in Berlin a revised edition which was shorter by a third than the first one. Today the book is generally considered Bely's masterpiece Vladimir Nabokov ranked it one of the four greatest "masterpieces of twentieth century prose", after Ulysses and The Metamorphosis, and before "the first half" of In Search of Lost Time. It received little attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written. The first edition was completed in November 1913 and published serially from October 1913 to March 1914 (and later reissued as a book in 1916). A Symbolist work, it has been compared to other "city novels" like Ulysses and Berlin Alexanderplatz. Petersburg ( Russian: Петербург, Peterbúrg) is a novel by Russian writer Andrei Bely.
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