Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes is the story of a young Russian student named Razumov who when returning home to St. Petersburg, Russia discovers his friend Victor Haldin, an anarchist who has just committed a political assassination, hiding from the police in his apartment. Victor Haldin calls upon his friend Razumov to help him escape and in so doing puts him in the unenviable position of choosing between his loyalties to his friend or to abiding by the authority of the law in the service of justice. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination, and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Acknowledgements vii Chronology ix Introduction xv Further Reading xxxv A Note on the Texts xxxix Under Western Eyes 1(314) Appendix: Author's Note (1920) 315(4) Notes 319(23) Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases 342