In the article an attempt is made to describe the range of contemporary studies dedicated to the problem of Petersburg’s text of the Russian literature; directions are outlined alongside which the study of Petersburg’s text was developing after the fundamental researches on the semiotics of the city by V. Toporov and Yu. Lotman were published.
The article studies the problem of Petersburg text of the Russian literature in the literary works by Konstantin Vaginov, its correspondence to the classical Petersburg text of A. Pushkin, F. Dostoevsky, N. Gogol.