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Abstract: This article discusses the concept of "social architecture" (M.L. Gasparov) in the lyric poet of О. Mandelstam through the "viyonovsky text": cluster of the motives, which have been given rise by Gothic associations is examined. This cluster forms a picture of the modern world of Mandelstam, in which is inscribed the fate of the poet, who is dying in the dying Russia, as well as the tragic fate of Francois Villon died in a gothic medieval "cold" Europe.