![]() ![]() In his novel Demons, Dostoevsky satirises the radicals, in particular Nechaev, whose jury trial in Moscow he followed closely. The two men struck up a close friendship and they composed the Catechism of a Revolutionary, which had a huge impact on subsequent generations of revolutionaries worldwide, including Lenin and Stalin. ![]() ![]() When the young revolutionary Sergei Nechaev escaped from the authorities in Russia he met Mikhail Bakunin in Geneva in 1869. ![]() The dramatisation is written and directed by Peter Stürm and based on the translation by the two-time PEN Prize-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Ī short introduction to the evening will be followed by the performance and a lively discussion on the topics. Two actors from the SplitMoon ensemble will perform a dramatised version of the chapter The Tsarevich, which Dostoevsky developed out of Sergei Nechaev’s Catechism of a Revolutionary. Join us for a live performance in collaboration with SplitMoon Theatre company alongside their new production of Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s tragic satire of Russian radicals which blurs the lines between good and evil. ![]()
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