The Main Types of Female Characters of Petersburg Text of Russian Literature
The article is devoted to the major female types of characters in Petersburg text of Russian literature, the types of a prostitute and an old woman that oppose to each other as a poor victim and a villain. The author analyses examples from the texts written by A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, F.M. Dostoevsky, V.V. Krestovsky, A.A. Blok.