For 10 points each, name this Russian precursor to Ulysses, a labyrinthine 1913 novel by Andrey Bely set in the-then capital city.
At a salon, a man in this novel states that a Japanese landscape was painted by "Hadusai," thereby committing a "phoophoo" requiring him to deposit a coin in a "Charity Fund." The protagonist of this novel mixes up the words "pepper" and "apperception," in the kind of pun that its author had celebrated in his essay "The Magic of Words." A child in this novel hallucinates an expanding bouncing ball that he nicknames "Pepp Peppovich Pepp." Throughout this novel, the narrator likens the citizens of the title location to the segments of a giant myriapod. The prologue to this novel poses the question "What is this Russian Empire of ours?" The protagonist of this novel wears a silly red domino in pursuing his best friend's wife Sofia Petrovna, and gets chased around by the (*) Bronze Horseman. In this novel, the revolutionary Dudkin tasks Nikolai with delivering a sardine tin containing a time bomb to his senator father Apollon Apollonovich. For 10 points each, name this Russian precursor to Ulysses, a labyrinthine 1913 novel by Andrey Bely set in the-then capital city.
At a salon, a man in this novel states that a Japanese landscape was painted by "Hadusai," thereby committing a "phoophoo" requiring him to deposit a coin in a "Charity Fund.
Petersburg [or Peterburg]