Semiotic studiesSemiotic studies2782-29662782-2958Samara National Research University1761610.18287/2782-2966-2023-3-1-48-54Research ArticleSemiotics of the city in the sketches by N. Garin-Mikhailovsky «In the hustle and bustle of the provincial life»PerepelkinMikhail A.<p>Dr. philol. habil., Professor, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature and Public Relations</p>mperepelkin@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6102-6947Samara National Research University2504202331485425042023Copyright © 2023, Perepelkin M.A.2023<p>This article attempts to analyze the semiotics of the urban space depicted by N. Garin-Mikhailovsky in In the hustle and bustle of the provincial life sketches. For this purpose, the main city locations, described by the author, are identified - the noble assembly, the governor's house, the apartments of the photographer and Abramson, Khlebnaya Square and some others. On the basis of the analysis, it is concluded that, when sketching a portrait of the city, Garin depicts it in almost the entire geographical extent - from the southwest to its northeastern outskirts; the intention to show the whole Samara in terms of the geographical extent is accompanied with a similar intention to show different social levels of the city life; urban locations are not depicted as static, remote and isolated objects, but as connected by a wide variety of connections and relationships. All this together allows us to consider the city, depicted in N. Garin-Mikhailovskys sketches, as a semiotic structure, a complex meaning, and decoding is the only way to get closer to a real understanding of the formula in the title of the cycle In the hustle and bustle of the provincial life.</p>Н.Г. Гарин-Михайловский«В сутолоке провинциальной жизни»городские локациидворянское собраниедом губернатораквартиры фотографа и АбрамсонаХлебная площадьсемиотика городаN. Garin-Mikhailovsky«In the hustle and bustle of provincial life»city locationsnoble assemblygovernor’s houseapartments of the photographer and AbramsonKhlebnaya Squaresemiotics of the city[Aleksushina, T., Aleksushin, G., Budanova, A. (2009), Samara, Dvoryanskaya street, LLC «Ofort», Samara, Russia.][Garin-Mikhailovsky, N. (1958), Collected works in five volumes, vol. 4, State publishing house of fiction, Moscow, Russia.][Zhestkova, A. (2011), «Provincial text» by N. Garin-Mikhailovsky (Essays «In the hustle and bustle of provincial life»), Vestnik SamGU, no. 4 (85).][Kasatkina, S.S. (2017), Semiotic approach to the study of the city as a system, Filosofskaya mysl', no. 6, pp. 101–109.][Classics of Samara local history. Anthology. Issue 6. Diary and memoirs of the Samara governor Alexander Dmitrievich Sverbeev (2019), Slovo, Samara, Russia.][Michurin, P. (1952), Yakov Teitel. Typescript, Archive of M. Gorky Samara Literary and Memorial Museum, Samara, Russia.][Poddubnaya, R. (2020), Grigory Sergeevich Aksakov, Standard, Samara, Russia.][Portnov, G. (2008), The image of the space of the village and the city in the works of N. Garin-Mikhailovsky «Several years in the countryside» and «In the hustle and bustle of provincial life», Codes of Russian classics: «provincial» as meaning, value and code: materials of the II International scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the head of the department of Russian and foreign literature SamGU Sergey Alekseevich Golubkov (Samara, November 29-30, 2007), Samara University Publishing House, Samara, Russia.][Semyonov (Blanc), M. (1940), Revolutionary Samara of the 80-90s., Kuibyshev publishing house, Kuibyshev, USSR.][Chumash, R. (1989), «Assemblies» at Teitel's, Volzhskaya Zarya, February 25.][Shchukin, V. (2022), City and Myth: Studies in Geopoetics, Lenand, Moscow, Russia.][Davis, Mike (1999), Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, Picador, London, UK.][Lynch, K. (1960), The Image of the Citi, Cambridge, Technology Press, Massachusetts.][Żyłko, B. (1997), Reading the City, Title (Gdańsk), no. 3-4, pp. 22–39.]