Modernistic metaphor "museum-coffin" in the context of symbolics of city as museum
The article is dedicated to consideration of metaphor «museum-coffin of art» in the context of art and literature of native modernism. Symbolic connections of museum as repository of values of past cultures and city-museum (in the article St. Petersburg is an example) are based on the strained feeling of category of time, experiencing of idea of death and ideas about the city and museum, related to dialectics of «authentic» and «false».