ABSTRACT
When it comes to the use of space and urban spatial awareness, Pushkin may not be the key figure, but two things need to be mentioned: first, Pushkin provides an important link between the earlier use of cityspace in Russian literature and later developments, and second, in Pushkin's works we can find the germs of many examples of the use of space to be found in Russian literature after him. The correspondence of hierarchy of power and position in vertical space will be preserved later when Evgeny runs, believing he is chased by the Bronze Horseman. Public city spaces, it appears once again, are not just locations where circulation takes place; they are also places where social hierarchies and, therefore, anxieties of rank are soundly present. Andrei Bely's Petersburg is thus a good way to complete our discussion of how Russian literature discovered and utilized cityspace, from its creation to destruction.
