Petersburg is one of the most significant works of the famous symbolist writer Andrei Bely. In this novel, peculiar in style, artistic techniques and philosophical problems, the social system of tsarist Russia and the stillness of the bureaucratic system of tsarism are critically covered. Nabokov called Bely's masterpiece "Petersburg" one of the four greatest prose achievements of the twentieth century - together with Ulysses, Kafka's Transformation and In Search of Lost Time.