This book presents translations of two celebrated works by Georgy Ivanov. "Disintegration of the Atom" (1938) is a prose poem depicting Russian emigre despair on the eve of WWII--a cri de coeur that challenges prevailing concepts of time and space, ending in erotically charged wretchedness. "Petersburg Winters" (1928/1952) is a portrait of Petersburg swept up in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. The spirit of the city is conveyed through a series of vignettes of Ivanov's contemporaries, including Blok, Akhmatova, Esenin, and Mandelstam.