ABSTRACT
The passing of the great revolutionary was a historical landmark, and was followed by the renaming of Petrograd as Leningrad in his honour. Pasternak’s next essay in the genre, Lieutenant Shmidt, zooms in from the 1905 Revolution as a whole to concentrate on a single spectacular episode, the naval mutiny that occurred at Sevastopol in October and November. Pasternak’s next essay in the genre, Lieutenant Shmidt, zooms in from the 1905 Revolution as a whole to concentrate on a single spectacular episode, the naval mutiny that occurred at Sevastopol in October and November. Pasternak’s hesitancies of the late 1920s are strikingly illustrated in a work of prose fiction, A Tale, which was not only written and published during the years when Spektorsky was taking shape, but also has many points in common with that poem. Pasternak’s prose works of the late 1920s further include the autobiographical study published in 1929, Safe-Conduct.
