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The article examines Kharms's views on literary evolution and historical changes as expressed in The Comedy of the City of Petersburg. Kharms's play presents a large number of different fragments: pre- and post-1917 historical events and personages, but also spiritual values, literary and mythological heroes. The city's name represents a determining factor of its destiny. The paper demonstrates how...