Musicology Annotation << Back M.I. Glinka`s Petersburg mummery Frolov Sergey V. The great Russian composer M.I. Glinka was raised by Petersburg, was with him in constant dialogue, thanks to which he and his work became the personifi cation of the so-called "Petersburg text" of Russian culture. Representations about this text are built by analogy with the concept of the "Petersburg text of Russian literature, derived by V.N. Toporov. The most important manifestation of this "text" is his increased theatricality, his propensity for acting, which reaches the level of ernicism. The article discusses the conditions for the formation of hypocrisy by Glinka during training in the Noble Boarding School and the forms of manifestations of the modus operandi in life, especially in the form of imitation of the model of the acting of his boarding instructor I.E. Kolmakov, in theatrical rallies among Petersburg's secular youth, in the company of the Kukolnikovs "Brethren" and, fi nally, in the demonstrative epatage of the last days of life. As an illustration to these forms, examples from contemporary Glinka cartoons by N.A. Stepanov are indicated. At the same time, the issue of the refl ection of the lucre in such works as the operas "Life for the Tsar", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", in the "Kamarinskaya", in the vocal cycle "Farewell to St. Petersburg" is also touched upon. Keywords: M.I. Glinka, "Petersburg text", theatricality, hypocrisy, curfew, challenge. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.10.2018.200 Contacts: E-mail: volorf2@yandex.ru Pp. 03-12.