"Russian text": a Problem Statement
The concept of “St. Petersburg text”, offered by V. N. Toporov, opens up the possibility to find within a regional or national culture a certain semantic center, a ‘Supertext', a set of works having much in common and embodying the deep metaphysical essence of this culture. The author proves the validity of the statement of such a question towards the “Russian text”, the structural and semantic integrity, concentrating the spiritual and transcendental idea of Russia and connected to the Russian literature by approximately the same kind of relationships as “St. Petersburg text” to St. Petersburg literature.