The article deals with the chronotope of the madhouse as one of the main ones in the organization of the novel “The Master and Margarita” by M.A. Bulgakov. The temporal category is presented in various forms (historical, biographical, folklore, fairy-tale, mystical, literary time). The space is extremely diverse (otherworldly, mythical, game). The chronotope of the madhouse performs a genre and plotting function.

Artistic Petersburg by A.Akhmatova took in the features of the city represented in the earlier literature, that is why one can remember the events of The Petersburg Story by A.S.Pushkin, Twelve by A.Blok, Petersburg by A.Beliy. Petersburg by A.Akhmatova is a strong polyphonic resonant space with different historical events.

Petersburg attracted many poets not only from the urbanist point of view but also as a city that took in a number of legends and events and faced great social changes. Petersburg is a mythical city that has certain stages of existence. It is in A.Akhmatovas representation that the city received its completion having taken in the features of other Petersburgs represented in earlier literature works from A.S.Pushkin to A.Blok.