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The “estate text” and the text of exile are an important part of the semiosphere of Russian culture and interact at different stages of their development. Elements of semantics are the points of intersection of different hypertexts: a system of oppositions and plots. In the literature of the 18th century, the plot of escape from the world of slavery, represented by the space of the city, to the world of freedom (the space of the estate) is formed. In the era of romanticism the escape plot is transformed: the fugitive’s movement does not have an end point, and the topos of the estate acquires ambivalent features. On the one hand, this is a natural idyll, on the other — an area of slavery and oppression (social aspect). In the post-estate period (after the Russian revolutions of 1917) the opposition between the homeland and the foreign country is actualized, corresponding to the opposition of the past and the present. At the same time, the image of the homeland (homestead) also acquires dual features: Russia of memory and real Russia. In contemporary poetry, the “estate text” and the text of exile enter into intertextual interaction, becoming part of the “larger dialogue” of Russian culture.