Abstract
The Petersburg Tale is a specific genre formation within the framework of the Petersburg text of Russian literature. “The Queen of Spades” is traditionally regarded by researchers as Pushkin’s second (after the poem “The Bronze Horseman”) Petersburg Tale. However, the receptive history of the text indicates that this reading only emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. In this article an attempt is made to trace changing of the correlation between the readers’ reception strategies and the narrative strategies of the text at different times, and to describe the mechanisms of readers’ interpretation, which resulted in the transformation of “The Queen of Spades” from a secular short story (close to The Belkin Cycle) into the Petersburg Tale.
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