The Mirages of Andrey Bely’s Peterburg and the Techniques of their Creation
The author of Peterburg creates multiple images of a single object by using distinctly different signiﬁers of  the  signiﬁed. The  gatherings at Soﬁa's are described generally as  huge; speciﬁcally, though, there are six veriﬁable guests; and  more  speciﬁcally, those six never mix together. The picture of crowds can  be shown incompatible with the  text, therefore, false. Bely creates a convincing mirage, i. e. a vivid image of a non-existent object. 