Isaac's Cathedral onto Marie Square, site of the equestrian statue of the most repressive Russian emperor, Nicholas I. Although not named, we deduce it from the topographic context: its location on the Neva River across from Vasilievsky Island next to Nikolaevsky Bridge. The high government official Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, the object of this plot, travels to work by carriage from his mansion on the English Embankment, one of the most fashionable locales in Petersburg. Ableukhov's and Dudkin's routes through the city ( click map to enlarge)Īlthough Bely's representation of Petersburg is fluid and at times inexact, the first chapter carefully maps the routes of two of its main characters through the city that set the stage for the novel's terrorist plot.
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