Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of Andrej Belyj’s book Rythm as Dialectics and ‘The Bronze Horseman’ (1929) and its numerous connections with Belyj’s early articles and his novel Petersburg (1913). Rythm as Dialectics purported to present Pushkin as a revolutionary poet. Belyj tried to support this argument with his statistical analysis of Pushkin’s verse which contained numerous errors. Belyj must have hoped that this transformation of The Bronze Horseman into a revolutionary work could have a positive impact on his reputation, demonstrating the ideological usefulness of his studies of verse for the Soviet state. Moreover, Belyj’s research produces an impression that not only Pushkin’s poem, but Bely’s novel Petersburg was deeply revolutionary in spirit. The comparison of this research with the novel sheds new light on both the former, and the latter.
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