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Andrei Bely 1880-1934

Petersburg - Roman (1913)

Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov is a senator of a very respectable family: he has Adam as his ancestor. However, if we talk about times not so distant, then during the reign of Anna Ioannovna, the Kirkiz-Kaisatsky Mirza Ab-Lai entered the Russian service, was named Andrei in baptism and received the nickname Ukhov. He was the great-great-grandfather of Apollon Apollonovich.

Apollon Apollonovich is preparing to go to the Institution, he was the head of the Institution and from there he sent circulars throughout Russia. He ran the circulars.

Apollon Apollonovich had already got up, wiped himself with eau de cologne, wrote down in his "Diary" - which will be published after his death - an idea that came to mind. He ate coffee, inquired about his son, and, having learned that his son Nikolai Apollonovich had not yet got up, he grimaced. Every morning the senator asked about his son and grimaced every morning. He sorted out the correspondence and put aside, without opening, a letter that had come from Spain from his wife Anna Petrovna. Two and a half years ago the couple parted, Anna Petrovna left with an Italian singer.

Young, in a black top hat, in a gray coat, pulling on a black glove as he walked, Apollon Apollonovich ran down the porch and got into the carriage.

The carriage flew to Nevsky. It flew in a greenish fog along the avenue that rushed to infinity, past the cubes of houses with strict numbering, past the circulating public, from which Apollon Apollonovich was reliably protected by four perpendicular walls. The senator did not like open spaces, could not bear zigzag lines. He liked the geometric regularity of cubes, parallelepipeds, pyramids, the clarity of straight lines, and the planning of St. Petersburg avenues. The islands rising in the fog, into which the arrows of the avenues pierced, aroused fear in him. The resident of the islands, the raznochinny, factory people, the inhabitants of chaos, the senator believed, threaten St. Petersburg.

From a huge gray house on the seventeenth line of Vasilyevsky Island, descending a black staircase strewn with cucumber peels, a stranger with a black mustache comes out. In his hands is a bundle, which he carefully holds. Across the Nikolaevsky bridge, in a stream of people - blue shadows in the dusk of a gray morning - the shadow of a stranger to Petersburg. He hated Petersburg for a long time.

A carriage stopped at the crossroads... Suddenly. Frightened, Apollon Apollonovich raised his gloved hands, as if trying to protect himself, leaned back into the depths of the carriage, hit the wall with a cylinder, and exposed a bare skull with huge protruding ears. The flaming, staring at him look close to the carriage of the walking commoner pierced him.

The carriage flew by. The stranger was further carried away by the flow of people.

Couple after couple flowed along the Nevsky, fragments of words formed into phrases, Neva gossip was woven: "They are going to ...", "Throw ...", "To whom ...", "To Abl ...". The provocation went on a spree along Nevsky, the words in the stranger turned into a provocation, the provocation was in himself. "Look, what courage, Elusive," the stranger heard behind him.

Out of the autumn dankness, a stranger enters the restaurant.

Apollon Apollonovich was somehow especially concentrated that day. Idle thoughts played out, a brain game started up. He remembers that he saw a stranger in his house. Out of the senator's brain game, out of an ephemeral being, a stranger came out and established himself in reality.

When the stranger disappeared at the door of the restaurant, two silhouettes appeared; fat, tall, clearly distinguished by his build, and next to him was the lousy figure of a short gentleman with a huge wart on his face. Separate phrases of their conversation were heard: "Senator Ableukhov to publish a circular ...", "The elusive one will have to...", "Nikolai Apollonovich will have to...", "The case is staged like a clockwork...", "They would receive a salary" .

The figure of an unpleasant fat man appeared at the door of the establishment, the stranger turned around, and the lady waved her cat hat to him in a friendly way. "Alexander Ivanovich ..", "Lippanchenko". The person sits down at the table. “Be careful,” the stranger warns him, noticing that the fat man wants to put his elbow on a sheet of newspaper: the sheet was covered with a knot. Lippanchenko's lips trembled. He asks to take the dangerous little bundle for storage to Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, and at the same time to hand over the letter.

For two and a half years, Nikolai Apollonovich has not met his father for morning coffee, does not wake up before noon, walks around in a Bukhara dressing gown, Tatar shoes and a yarmulke. However, he still reads Kant and draws conclusions, builds chains of logical premises. In the morning he received a box from the dresser: in the box is a satin red domino. Nikolai Apollonovich sets off into the damp Petersburg twilight, throwing a Nikolaevka coat over his shoulders. A piece of red satin peeks out under the Nikolaevka. Memories of unsuccessful love swept over him, he remembered that foggy night when he almost threw himself from the bridge into dark waters and when the plan matured in him to make a promise to one frivolous party.

Nikolai Apollonovich enters the entrance of the house on the Moika and remains in the darkness of the entrance. A woman's shadow, burying her face in her muff, runs along the Moika and enters the entrance. The maid opens the door and screams. In the streak of light that cut through the darkness, there is a red domino in a black mask. Putting the mask forward, the domino holds out a bloody sleeve. And when the door slammed shut, the lady sees a visiting card lying at the door: a skull with bones instead of a noble crown and typed words in fashionable type - "I'm waiting for you in a masquerade there, such and such a date. Red Jester."

Sofya Petrovna Likhutina lives in the house on the Moika, she is married to lieutenant Sergei Sergeyevich Likhutin; Nikolai Apollonovich was the best man at her wedding. Nikolai Apollonovich often visited this house, where the Little Russian Lippanchenko came, and the student Varvara Evgrafovna, who was secretly in love with Ableukhov. The noble appearance of Nikolai Apollonovich first captivated Sofya Petrovna, but behind the ancient mask something frog-like suddenly opened up in him. Sofya Petrovna both loved and hated Ableukhov, attracted him, repulsed him from her, and once in anger called him the Red Jester. Ableukhov stopped coming.

In the morning, a stranger with a mustache comes to Nikolai Apollonovich. The visit is not too pleasant for Ableukhov, he remembers the recklessly given promise, he thinks to refuse, but somehow everything does not work out. And the stranger asks to take the bundle for storage, opens up, complains of insomnia, loneliness. All of Russia knows him as Elusive, but he himself is locked in his apartment on Vasilyevsky Island, he does not go anywhere. After the exile of Yakutsk, he met a special one in Helsingfors and now depends on the person.

Apollon Apollonovich arrives, his son introduces him to a university student Alexander Ivanovich Dudkin. Apollon Apollonovich recognizes him as yesterday's commoner.

A rumble rolls across Petersburg. There will be a rally. With the news of the rally, Varvara Evgrafovna comes to Sofya Petrovna and asks to convey a letter to Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, whom, according to rumors, Sofya Petrovna is to meet at the ball at the Tsukatovs. Nikolai Apollonovich knew that Sofya Petrovna would be at the meeting. Varvara Evgrafovna always takes everyone to the rallies. In a Nikolaevka coat, worn over a red domino, he rushes into the St. Petersburg twilight.

Escaped from the stuffy hall, where speakers were speaking and shouts of "Strike!" were heard, Sofya Petrovna runs to her home. She sees on the bridge: a red domino in a black mask rushes towards her. But two steps away from Sofya Petrovna, a red domino slips and falls, revealing light-green pantalon thongs. "A frog, a freak, a red jester," Sofya Petrovna shouts and, in anger, kicks the jester. She runs home upset and in a fit tells everything to her husband. Sergei Sergeevich became terribly agitated and, pale, clenching his fists, paced the room. He forbade going to the ball to the Tsukatovs. Sofya Petrovna was offended. Offended by her husband and Ableukhov, she opened the letter brought by Varvara Evgrafovna, read it and decided to take revenge.

In the costume of Madame Pompadour, despite the prohibition of her husband, Sofya Petrovna arrived at the ball. Apollon Apollonovich also arrived. They were waiting for masks. And then a red domino appears, and then other masks. Madame Pompadour invites a red domino to dance, and in the dance she hands over a letter. Does not recognize Sofya Petrovna Ableukhov. In the corner room, he rips off the envelope, lifts the mask and reveals himself. Scandal. Red domino - Nikolai Ableukhov. And already a short gentleman with a wart informs Apollon Apollonovich about this.

Having run out of the entrance, in the alley, by the light of a lantern, Ableukhov again reads the letter. He does not believe his eyes. They remember this promise to him, they offer to blow up their own father with a time bomb, which is stored in the bundle handed to him in the form of a sardine. And then a short gentleman comes up, carries him along, leads him to a tavern. At first he appears as the illegitimate son of Apollon Apollonovich, and then as Pavel Yakovlevich Morkovin, an agent of the security department. He says that if Nikolai Apollonovich does not fulfill the requirements stated in the letter, he will arrest him.

Sergei Sergeevich Likhutin, when Sofya Petrovna left for the ball, despite the prohibition, decides to commit suicide. He shaved off his mustache and shaved his neck, smeared the rope with soap, fastened it to the chandelier and climbed onto a chair. The doorbell rang, at that moment he stepped out of his chair and ... fell. I didn't hang myself. Suicide turned out to be an even greater humiliation for Lieutenant Likhutin. This is how Sofia Petrovna discovered him. She leaned over him and wept softly.

Apollo Apollonovich firmly decided to himself that his son was a notorious scoundrel; the scandal at the ball, that is, the appearance of Nikolai Apollonovich in a red domino, makes him decide to sort things out. But at the last moment, Apollon Apollonovich finds out about the arrival of Anna Petrovna and, unexpectedly for himself, only informs his son of this and looks not with hatred, but with love. Another moment, and Nikolai Apollonovich would throw himself at his father's feet in repentance, but, noticing his movement, Apollon Apollonovich suddenly points to the door in anger and shouts that Nikolai Apollonovich is no longer his son.

In his room, Nikolai Apollonovich takes out a sardine bowl, a sardine bowl of terrible content. Without a doubt, it should be thrown into the Neva, but for now ... for now, at least delay the terrible event by turning the key of the clock mechanism twenty times.

Alexander Ivanovich wakes up broken and sick. With difficulty, he gets up and goes outside. Here Nikolai Apollonovich, excited and indignant, rushes at him. From his confused explanations, it becomes clear to Dudkin for whom the "sardine of terrible content" is intended, he also recalls the letter that he forgot to give to Nikolai Apollonovich and asked Varvara Evgrafovna to do it. Alexander Ivanovich assures Ableukhov that there has been a misunderstanding, promises to settle everything and asks to immediately throw the sardine into the Neva.

The strange word "enfranchish" beats in Alexander Ivanovich's head. He comes to a small house with a garden. The dacha overlooked the sea, a bush was beating through the window. He is met by the hostess Zoya Zakharovna Fleisch. She is talking to some Frenchman. Singing comes from the next room. Zoya Zakharovna explains that this is the Persian Shishnarfiev. The surname seemed familiar to Dudkin. Lippanchenko comes, he looks at Dudkin disdainfully, even disgustedly. He talks with a Frenchman, makes him wait for a conversation with himself.

As a high-ranking person he treats Alexander Ivanovich. And now the person has the power. Dudkin is removed, he has no influence, he is completely dependent on the person, and the person does not hesitate to threaten him. Dudkin returns home. On the stairs he is met by darkness and strange geniuses at the door of the apartment. His guest, Shishnarfiev, is waiting in the room, assuring us that Petersburg, the city in the swamp, is in fact the kingdom of the dead;

recalls the meeting in Helsingfors, when Alexander Ivanovich spoke out for the destruction of culture, saying that Satanism would replace Christianity. "Enfranches!" exclaims Dudkin. "You called me, so I came," the voice answers. The Persian thins out, turns into a silhouette, then simply disappears and speaks as if from Alexander Ivanovich himself. That's who he concluded an agreement with in Helsingfors, and Lippanchenko was only an image of these forces. But now Dudkin knows what he will do with Lippanchenko.

A heavy-voiced galloping is heard outside the window. The Bronze Horseman enters the room. He puts his hand on Dudkin's shoulder, breaking his collarbone: "Nothing: die, be patient," and pours red-hot metal into his veins.

We need to find a metal place, Dudkin understands in the morning, goes to the store and buys scissors ...

On the street, Nikolai Apollonovich meets Likhutin. The one in civilian clothes, clean-shaven, without a mustache; drags him along, takes him home for explanations, drags Ableukhov into the apartment, pushes the room into the back. Sergey Sergeevich nervously paced, it seems that he will beat Ableukhov now. Nikolai Apollonovich pitifully makes excuses...

That morning Apollon Apollonovich did not go to the Institution. In a dressing gown, with a rag in his hands, wiping the dust from the bookshelves, Anna's youthful gray-haired cavalier, who arrived with the news of the general strike, finds her with it. Apollon Apollonovich is retiring, they began to say in the Institution.

Apollon Apollonovich walks around his deserted house, enters his son's rooms. An open drawer draws his attention. Absent-mindedly, he takes some strange heavy object, goes away with it and forgets it in his office...

Nikolai Apollonovich tried to escape from Likhutin, but he was thrown into a corner and lies humiliated, with his tailcoat torn off. "I won't kill you," says Sergey Sergeevich. He dragged Ableukhov to his place, because Sofya Petrovna told him about the letter. He wants to lock up Ableukhov, go to his house, find a bomb and throw it into the Neva. Pride woke up in Nikolai Apollonovich, he is indignant that Sergey Sergeevich could consider him capable of killing his own father.

The dacha overlooked the sea, a bush was beating through the window. Ligshanchenko and Zoya Zakharovna were sitting in front of the samovar. The bush boiled. A figure was hiding in its branches, languishing and trembling. It seemed to her that the horseman was pointing with his outstretched hand at the windows of the dacha. The figurine approached the house and recoiled again... Lilpanchenko looks around, the noise outside the windows attracts his attention, he walks around the house with a candle - no one... The small figure runs up to the house, climbs into the bedroom window and hides... The candle casts fantastic shadows, Lippanchenko locks the door and goes to bed. In the ensuing phosphorescent twilight, a shadow clearly emerges and approaches him. Lippanchenko rushes to the door and feels as if a stream of boiling water went down his back, and then he felt a stream of boiling water under his navel ... When they came to his room in the morning, Lippanchenko was not there, but there was a corpse; and the figure of a man with a strange grin on his white face, sitting on a dead man, clutching scissors in his hand.

Apollon Apollonovich came to Anna Petrovna's hotel and returned home with her... Nikolai Apollonovich searches through his closets in his room in search of a sardine. Nowhere is she. The servant enters with the news - Anna Petrovna has arrived - and asks to go into the living room. After two and a half years, the Ableukhovs again dine together ... Nikolai Apollonovich decides that Lihutin has already taken the sardine in his absence. He accompanies his mother to the hotel, stops by the Likhutins, but there is darkness in the windows of their apartment, the Likhutins were not at home ...

Nikolai Apollonovich could not sleep that night. He went out into the corridor, sank down on his haunches, took a nap from fatigue. I woke up on the floor in the hallway. There was a heavy roar...

Nikolai Apollonovich ran up to the place where the door to his father's office had just been. There was no door: there was a huge failure. In the bedroom, Apollon Apollonovich sat on the bed with his arms around his knees and roared. Seeing his son, he started to run away from him, ran through the corridor and locked himself in the toilet...

Apollon Apollonovich retired and moved to the village. Here he lived with Anna Petrovna, wrote memoirs, in the year of his death they saw the light.

Nikolai Apollonovich, who had been lying in a fever all the time of the investigation, went abroad, to Egypt. He returned to Russia only after the death of his father.

Authors of the retelling: Slava Yanko, Alexandra Vladimirova

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