Quick Overview
The Silver Dove is the first modern Russian novel. Dissatisfied with the life of the intelligentsia, the Moscow poet Daryalsky joins a rural mystic sect, The Silver Doves, whose leader, the carpenter Kudeyarov - later claimed by Bely to have anticipated something of Rasputin - makes ruthless use of him in a bid to produce offspring from a sectarian 'Mother of God'. The story reverberates with concerns that seethed in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution - the identity of Russia, torn between East and West, theosophy, the religious nature of art and its potential for creating a new organic community.
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