Piter (novel)

Piter

Cover of the Polish version of the book
Author	Shimun Vrochek
Country	Russia
Language	Russian (Original), Polish, German and Spanish
Series	Universe of Metro 2033
Genre	Post-apocalyptic
Publication date	February 2010
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	384 (Russian original) 595 (Polish version) 624 (German version)

Piter (Russian: Питер) is a novel written by Russian author Shimun Vrochek.Piter is part of Universe of Metro 2033, a long-running series of post-apocalyptic short stories, novellas, and novels, spanning a variety of genres. The works are written by several different authors.Piter was originally published in February 2010. Although there is currently no English version of the book, Piter has been translated into a number of other European languages, such as German, Polish and Spanish.. The novel was translated to Polish by Paweł Podmiotko.

The book itself is different from Dmitry Glukhovsky's original works, giving the reader a look at what happened after the Catastrophe in another part of Russia, whilst maintaining the original ideas and atmosphere behind Metro 2033. It is one of the longer novels in the Universe series. Piter is featured as an Easter egg in the video game adaptation of Metro 2033, where a 3D model of the book can be found laying on the rail cart near the end of the level Armory, during chapter 3 of the game's story.

Just like the people of Moscow in the fictional world of Metro 2033, a fraction of St. Petersburg's citizens fled to the underground tunnels of their hometown's metro moments before the nuclear bombs were dropped on the city. Piter (Russian slang for St. Petersburg) tells the story of Ivan Merkulov, a twenty-six-year-old fighter and stalker who experiences many trials and adventures as he travels through places both within the subway system of Saint Petersburg, as well as those above on the surface of post-apocalyptic Earth. The novel begins with the protagonist about to get married. The ceremony is interrupted when the engine-generator that powers the necessities of life on Vasileostrovskaya (Ivan's home station) is stolen. Sozonov - friend and member of Merkulov's team of stalkers - believes that the residents of several nearby stations, who originate from Moscow, are responsible for the crime. A war begins between those stations and an alliance that Vasileostrovskaya is part of.