安德列•彆雷（1880—1934），俄國象徵主義詩人、作傢，齣生於一個富裕傢庭，自幼受到良好的教育。父親是大學數學係教授，母親愛好音樂，擅長鋼琴演奏，數學的精確性和音樂的藝術性都在彆雷的創作中留下瞭深刻的影響。彆雷自1901年開始發錶文學作品，著有詩歌《藍色天空中的金子》《灰燼》《甕》等，長篇小說《銀鴿》《彼得堡》《莫斯科》《頭麵像》等。

安德列•彆雷在小說中不僅關注俄羅斯民族的文化歸屬和精神源流，而且實驗性地利用多種藝術形式的聯覺性特徵，將象徵與意識流巧妙結閤，他也因此與普魯斯特、喬伊斯等作傢一同進入20世紀著名意識流大師的行列。

"Petersburg" is a story of family dysfunction, parricide, political terror, conspiracy and murder, but it also points to apocalypse and redemption. The world of history - the revolution of 1905 - and the world of myth - in the figure of Saturn, who devours his children and in turn is devoured by them-are intertwined. Russia is torn apart by the conflict between revolutions and reaction, at the level of myth, these opposites are indistinguishable. The Ableukhovs, father and son, embody this conflict, but are scions of the same Mongol lineage. The city itself if the 'child' of its autocratic founder, Peter the Great, who maintains his power over it through the agency of his statue, the Bronze Horseman.