  Andrei Bely's novel "Petersburg," first published in 1913, was declared by
Vladimir Nabokov one of the four greatest masterpieces of 20th-century prose.
The Banach-Tarski Paradox, published in 1924, is one of the most striking and
well-known results in 20th-century mathematics. In this paper we explore a
potential connection between these two landmark works, based on various
interactions with the Moscow Mathematical School and passages in the novel
itself.
