Petersburg Love

About This Novel

"Love in Petersburg" (originally titled "The Ordinary Story") is Goncharov's first novel in 1844 and was published in "Modern Man" magazine in 1847. The novel describes Alexander, a young man who grew up in a noble manor in the provinces, was inexperienced in the world, and was full of fantasy. After spending 20 years of pampering in the countryside, he became dissatisfied with this kind of life and felt that "the world of family is too small." He crazily yearned for city life, and then came to Petersburg with a head full of pastoral romantic fantasies, and got along with the emerging bourgeois industrialist Uncle Peter. Petersburg's emerging bourgeois culture was incompatible with the traditional aristocratic manor culture and patriarchal lifestyle, and the two worldviews collided fiercely. Alexander lived happily in Petersburg for seven years without achieving anything. After his mother passed away, he came to Petersburg for the second time, determined to open up a new path for himself. He finally agreed with his uncle's philosophy of life and attitude towards life. After a tortuous road, he finally achieved success and became a property owner. By the end of the novel, he is already an imposing sixth-grade civil servant with a big belly and a medal around his neck, and has found a fiancée with a dowry of 300,000 rubles and 500 serfs.

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