During the 1890s, the realist-utilitarian imperative in literature and art (while still followed by greats such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorky) was gradually giving way to modernist and aestheticist (“art for art’s sake”) experimentation, which became more established after the foundation in 1898 of the journal The World of Art (edited by Sergei Diaghilev, who would become internationally famous as the impresario of the Ballets Russes seasons in Paris, c.
When jumping from Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) to Bely’s Petersburg (1916), it is useful to understand a few key things about the more than half-century separating the two books.įirst, you’ll notice that stylistically Petersburg is a world away from the 19th century prose of Turgenev and Dostoevsky.
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