That meeting follows the discovery that this work's protagonist is the wearer of a red domino, which he dons as a result of being called a "red buffoon" by the woman that he loves, Sofia Petrovna.
One character in this work has a conversation with a man who turns into a contour of ash while they talk about the need for barbarians to wipe out society; that transforming figure is the Persian Shishnarfne. After a dinner together, the father of this work's protagonist questions whether or not it was possible for him to conclude that his son was a scoundrel; however, he reaffirms this opinion after an encounter with a double agent whose name is either Morkovin or Voronkov. That meeting follows the discovery that this work's protagonist is the wearer of a red domino, which he dons as a result of being called a "red buffoon" by the woman that he loves, Sofia Petrovna. Near the end of this work Alexander Ivanovich has a dream in which he is melted into the Bronze Horseman, a fact which prompts him to use a pair of scissors to murder Lippanchenko, because he had ordered this work's protagonist, Nikolai, to murder his father Apollon with a bomb. For 10 points, identify this Symbolist novel by Andrei Bely, named for a Russian city. 
One character in this work has a conversation with a man who turns into a contour of ash while they talk about the need for barbarians to wipe out society; that transforming figure is the Persian Shishnarfne.
St. Petersburg [or Peterburg] 