Discussions about A. Bely’s play «Peterburg» and the perfopmance

The author studies discussions about A. Bely’s play «Petersburg» and the performance. Critics appraised the play and the performance very negative, became for innovatory the guest of new form. The authors of memories gave abet reports of performance and the play as an artificial and ideological full. This erroneous idea conductived to the affirmation of mistaken idea in literary studies about impossibility of dramatizing and staging A. Bely’s best novel and was the political order.