City in space and time: two chronotopes of the one city

The topic of Russian cities in culture is a relatively new interdisciplinary area. The subject of this article are two outstanding studies dedicated to the city and which have become an event in modern humanities. Both studies are carried out in an interdisciplinary, cultural-philosophical and socio-artistic manner. Monumental work of M.S. Kagan is devoted, first of all, to the aesthetics of St. Petersburg and the formation of the Russian intelligentsia. In the three-volume L.G. The city of Kovnack appears different than Petersburg in the book by M.S. Kagan. Another time and heroes give rise to a different image of the city and chronotopes. The purpose of the comparison of these scientific publications undertaken in this article was the concept of "development of the city", which captured various branches of the humanities at the end of the 20th - 20th centuries. The polyphony of urban spaces and its influence on researchers is extremely relevant. It generates interdisciplinary discourses and is not divided into the usual disciplinary approaches. The author comes to the conclusion that the urban images of the 1930s. could not help but influence the military Shostokovichiana. Outside of Leningrad, he would hardly have built his great Seventh Symphony, first performed in Kuibyshev on March 5, 1942, in this way.