![]() ![]() Set in a small provincial town, Demons concerns a group of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky who plan to usher a revolution of some sort but explode as a series of personal connections between them weakens discipline, driving Verkhovensky to seek aid from Nikolai Stavrogin, a dissolute liberal nobleman and purported Prodigal Hero who he sees as the charismatic leader who could bind the cause and heal disputes. It was first published as a serial in The Russian Messenger in 1871–2. Demons ( Бесы, also translated under the titles The Devils and The Possessed) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. ![]()
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