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GOGOL Nikolai Vasilievich (1809 - 1852), Russian. writer. Lit. fame G. brought Sat. "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" (1831 - 32), rich in Ukrainian. ethnogr. and folklore material, marked romantic. mood, lyricism and humor. The stories from the collections "Mirgorod" and "Arabesques" (both 1835) open the realist. period of creativity G. Theme of humiliation " little man" was most fully embodied in the story "The Overcoat" (1842), with which the formation of the natural school is associated. The grotesque beginning of "Petersburg. stories" ("The Nose", "Portrait", etc.) was developed into the comedy "The Inspector General" (post. 1836) as a phantasmagoria of the bureaucratic-bureaucratic world. In the poem-novel "Dead Souls" (1st volume - 1842) satirical ridicule of landlord Russia was combined with the pathos of a person's spiritual transformation.The religious-journalistic book Selected passages from correspondence with friends (1847) evoked a critical letter from V. G. Belinsky.In 1852, G. burned the manuscript of volume 2 "Dead Souls" G. had a decisive influence on the establishment of humanistic and democratic principles in Russian literature.

Biography

Born on March 20 (April 1 n.s.) in the town of Velikie Sorochintsy, Mirgorodsky district, Poltava province, in the family of a poor landowner. Childhood years were spent in the estate of parents Vasilievka, near the village of Dikanka, the land of legends, beliefs, historical traditions. In the upbringing of the future writer, his father, Vasily Afanasyevich, a passionate admirer of art, a theater lover, an author of poetry and witty comedies, played a certain role.

After home education, Gogol spent two years at the Poltava district school, then entered the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences, created according to the type Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum for the children of the provincial nobility. Here he learned to play the violin, studied painting, played in performances, performing comic roles. Thinking about his future, he stops at justice, dreaming of "suppressing injustice."

After graduating from the Nezhin Gymnasium in June 1828, he went to St. Petersburg in December with the hope of starting a broad activity. It was not possible to get the service, the first literary tests were unsuccessful. Disappointed, in the summer of 1829 he went abroad, but soon returned. In November 1829 he received the position of a petty official. The gray bureaucratic life was brightened up by painting classes in the evening classes of the Academy of Arts. In addition, literature was powerfully attracted to itself.

In 1830, Gogol's first story, Basavryuk, appeared in the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski, later revised into the story The Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala. In December, Delvig's almanac "Northern Flowers" published a chapter from historical novel"Hetman". Gogol became close to Delvig, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, with whom he had friendship great importance for the development of public views and literary talent of the young Gogol. Pushkin introduced him to his circle, where Krylov, Vyazemsky, Odoevsky, the artist Bryullov visited him, gave him plots for The Government Inspector and Dead Souls. “When I created,” Gogol testified, “I saw only Pushkin in front of me ... His eternal and immutable word was dear to me.”

Literary fame for Gogol was brought by Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831-32), the stories Sorochinskaya Fair, May Night, etc. In 1833 he decided to devote himself to scientific and pedagogical work, and in 1834 he was appointed adjunct Department of World History at St. Petersburg University. The study of works on the history of Ukraine formed the basis of the idea of ​​"Taras Bulba". In 1835 he left the university and devoted himself entirely to literary creativity. In the same year, a collection of short stories "Mirgorod" appeared, which included "Old-world landowners", "Taras Bulba", "Viy" and others, and a collection of "Arabesques" (on the themes of St. Petersburg life). The story "The Overcoat" was the most significant work of the St. Petersburg cycle, read in draft to Pushkin in 1836, and completed in 1842. Working on stories. Gogol also tried his hand at dramaturgy. The theater seemed to him a great force of exceptional importance in public education. In 1835 The Inspector General was written and already in 1836 staged in Moscow with the participation of Shchepkin.

Soon after the production of The Inspector General, harassed by the reactionary press and the "secular rabble," Gogol went abroad, settling first in Switzerland, then in Paris, and continued to work on " Dead souls"Started in Russia. The news of Pushkin's death was a terrible blow for him. In March 1837 he settled in Rome. During his visit to Russia in 1839 - 1840, he read chapters from the first volume to friends" dead souls", which was completed in Rome in 1840 - 1841.

Returning to Russia in October 1841, Gogol, with the assistance of Belinsky and others, got the first volume printed (1842). Belinsky called the poem "a creation, deep in thought, social, public and historical."

The work on the second volume of "Dead Souls" coincided with a deep spiritual crisis of the writer and, above all, reflected his doubts about the effectiveness of fiction, which put Gogol on the verge of renunciation of his former creations.

In 1847 he published Selected passages from correspondence with friends, which Belinsky subjected to devastating criticism in a letter to Gogol, condemning his religious and mystical ideas as reactionary.

In April 1848, after traveling to Jerusalem, to the Holy Sepulcher, he finally settled in Russia. Living in St. Petersburg, Odessa, Moscow, he continued to work on the second volume of Dead Souls. He was increasingly seized by religious and mystical moods, his health was deteriorating. In 1852, Gogol began meeting with Archpriest Matvey Konstantinovsky, a fanatic and mystic.

February 11, 1852, being in a difficult state of mind, the writer burned the manuscript of the second volume of the poem. On the morning of February 21, Gogol died in his last apartment on Nikitsky Boulevard.

Gogol was buried in the cemetery of the Danilov Monastery, after the revolution his ashes were transferred to the Novodevichy cemetery.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol- the great Russian writer, author of the works "Inspector", "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", "Taras Bulba", "Dead Souls" and many others.

Born March 20 (April 1), 1809 in the town of Velikie Sorochintsy, Mirgorod district, Poltava province, in the family of a poor landowner. In addition to Nicholas, the family had eleven more children. N.V. Gogol spent his childhood years in the estate of his parents Vasilievka (another name is Yanovshchina).

In 1818-1819, the writer studied at the Poltava district school, and in 1820-1821, he took lessons from the Poltava teacher Gabriel Sorochinsky, living with him. In May 1821 Nikolai Gogol entered the gymnasium of higher sciences in Nizhyn. There he learned to play the violin, studied painting, participated in performances, performing comic roles. Thinking about his future, he stops at justice, dreaming of "suppressing injustice."

After graduating from the gymnasium in June 1828, in December Gogol went to St. Petersburg with the hope of starting professional activity. At the end of 1829, he managed to decide on a service in the department of state economy and public buildings Ministry of the Interior. From April 1830 to March 1831, N.V. Gogol served in the department of appanages as an assistant clerk, under the supervision of the famous idyllic poet V.I. Panaev. Staying in the offices caused Gogol deep disappointment, but became rich material for future creations.

During this period, "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" (1831-1832), which combined stories from Ukrainian life, the stories "Sorochinsky Fair", "May Night", etc., were published. They aroused universal admiration. With the support of A.S. Pushkin and V.A. Zhukovsky, Nikolai Gogol in 1834 received a position as an associate professor at St. pedagogical activity and from 1835 began to deal exclusively with literature. The study of works on the history of Ukraine became the basis for the idea of ​​"Taras Bulba". Collections of stories "Mirgorod" are published, which include "Old World Landowners", "Taras Bulba", "Viy" and others, and "Arabesques" (on the themes of St. Petersburg life). The story "The Overcoat" became the most significant work of the St. Petersburg cycle. Working on the stories, Gogol N.V. He also tried his hand at dramaturgy.

According to the plot donated by Pushkin, Gogol wrote the comedy The Inspector General, which was staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater. The comedy caused discontent of different sections of society. Shocked by the failure, Nikolai Vasilyevich left for Europe in 1836 and lived there until 1849, only occasionally returning to Russia. While in Rome, the writer begins work on the 1st volume of Dead Souls. The work was published in Russia in 1842. Volume 2 of Dead Souls was filled with religious and mystical meaning by Gogol.

In 1847 Gogol N.V. published "Selected passages from correspondence with friends". This book called sharp criticism both friends and foes. In 1848 he tried to justify himself in the "Author's Confession" in the 2nd volume of "Dead Souls". This work receives universal approval and the writer is taken to work with renewed vigor.

In the spring of 1850, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol made the first and last attempt to arrange his family life. He makes an offer to A. M. Vielgorskaya, but is refused.

Living in St. Petersburg, Odessa, Moscow, he continued to work on the second volume of Dead Souls. He was increasingly seized by religious and mystical moods, his health was deteriorating. In 1852, Gogol began meeting with Archpriest Matvey Konstantinovsky, a fanatic and mystic. February 11, 1852, being in a difficult state of mind, the writer burned the manuscript of the second volume of the poem. On the morning of February 21, 1852, Nikolai Vasilyevich

Gogol died in his apartment on Nikitsky Boulevard.

The writer was buried in the Donskoy Monastery. After the revolution, the remains of N.V. Gogol were transferred to the Novodevichy cemetery.

In the town of Velikie Sorochintsy, Mirgorodsky district, Poltava province, the son of Nikolai was born to the landowner Vasily Afanasyevich Gogol-Yanovsky and his wife Maria Ivanovna, nee Kosyarovskaya.

Gogol was baptized in the Sorochinsky Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior by the rector Fr. John Belovolsky.

Gogol together with 8-year-old brother

om Ivan was given to the first class of the higher department of the Poltava district school.

Gogol's brother Ivan died.

Gogol left Poltava county school without finishing it.

Gogol lives with the teacher of the Latin language of the Poltava gymnasium G. M. Sorochinsky and takes lessons from him.

Gogol was admitted to the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences, Prince. Bezborodko. In June, after passing the exams, he was immediately enrolled in the second department of the gymnasium.

Beginning of September

Returning from Vasilyevka, Gogol began his studies at the Nezhin Gymnasium.

Gogol was accepted into the number of state-owned pupils and transferred to the fourth grade of the Nizhyn gymnasium.

October 10

Gogol informs his parents that he is dangerously ill and asks to send money, a violin and "food supplies".

Gogol moved to the fifth grade of the Nizhyn gymnasium.

Early December

Parents inform Gogol that they are in Kibintsy with D. P. Troshchinsky and will not be able to send for him for the Christmas holidays.

Gogol actively participates in the production school plays, plays in them and, together with K. M. Bazili and V. I. Lyubich-Romanovich, makes theatrical scenery.

Gogol received "one" in "behavior" "for untidiness, buffoonery, stubbornness and disobedience."

The reformed Gogol received "excellent-good" in behavior.

Gogol successfully passed the exams at the Nizhyn gymnasium in the presence of the honorary trustee Count A. G. Kushelev-Bezborodko and was transferred to the sixth grade.

October 1

Gogol asks his parents to send him a play by V. A. Ozerov "Oedipus in Athens", a novel by A. S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" and asked to get an anthology "Collection of exemplary Russian works ..."

Gogol's father V. A. Gogol-Yanovsky died.

Gogol replied to his mother, who announced the death of his father, that he bore this sad news with "the firmness of a true Christian."

After passing the exams, Gogol was transferred to the seventh grade of the Nizhyn gymnasium.

September 30

Gogol told his mother that he continued painting. During 1825 Gogol wrote the first literary works: the poem "Russia under the yoke of the Tatars", the ballad "Two Fish", the tragedy in verse "The Robbers", the "Slavic story" "The Brothers Tverdislavichi" and an acrostic on his friend in the gymnasium F.K. Borozdin.

Upon returning to Nizhyn from Vasilyevka, Gogol begins "The Book of All sorts of things, or an improvised Encyclopedia."

End of May - mid June

Gogol successfully passes the exams and is transferred to the eighth grade of the gymnasium of higher sciences.

August 20

Gogol asks his mother to write to him about economic affairs and advises her to start a tile factory on the estate.

Gogol writes to his mother: “I think you will be surprised at my successes, which I will personally hand over to you. You will not recognize my works. A new revolution has overtaken them. Probably, one of the proofs of the success achieved was the poem "Housewarming", published in the school magazine "Meteor".

The senior professor of the Nizhyn gymnasium, M. V. Bilevich, writes a report to the conference of the gymnasium that “on the morning of January 29, 1827, at the second hour of the teaching, I, having heard an unusual knock in the hall under the arch, went into it, where I found working carpenters and saw various theatrical preparations, such as backstage, tents and special floors elevated for the stages, why I asked why such work and preparations are being made; to which the workers and the then overseer Adolf Aman, who was at the same time, told me that this was done for the theater, where the pupils of the boarding school will present various theatrical plays. theatrical performances in educational institutions cannot be admitted without special permission from the higher educational authorities, then ... I humbly ask ... to report this to the Messrs. to the district and honorary trustees, if there is no permission from them." On this report, the senior professor K.V. followed in my name the permission of the higher authorities, then this to Mr. prof. Bilevich is informed about the existence of this permission.

February 10-13

In the Nezhin Gymnasium, school performances were given for four days in a row on Maslenitsa. Gogol participated in them.

February 26

Gogol writes to his mother that a theater was set up at the gymnasium at Shrovetide, and “to our credit, it was unanimously recognized that none of the provincial theaters was good against ours. True, they all played beautifully. Two French plays op. Molière and Florian, one German Op. Kotzebue. Russians: Undergrowth, Op. Fonvizina, Knyazhnin's Unsuccessful Conciliator, Lukavin Pisareva and Coastal Law Op. Kotzebue. The scenery was excellent, the lighting was magnificent, there were a lot of visitors, and all visitors, and all with excellent taste. The music also consisted of ours: eighteen overtures by Rossini, Weber and others were played excellently ... I don’t remember for myself ever such a holiday as I spent now.

Gogol writes a satire on the inhabitants of the city of Nizhyn "Something about Nizhyn, or the law is not written for fools."

Gogol informs his mother that he ordered the complete works of F. Schiller from the Austrian city of Lemberg (Lvov).

Professor of Russian literature P. I. Nikolsky submits a report to the conference, where he criticizes the “spectacular performances” of the gymnasium students. He claims that plays are played with arbitrary changes and additions. On the same day, the former inspector K. A. Moiseev informs the conference that "boarders begin to read forbidden books; in the classes, when they are asked questions, they find themselves busy not so much studying as learning theatrical roles." As a result of these denunciations, the spring series of school performances in 1827 was canceled.

Professor M. V. Bilevich submitted to the conference a report on the state of morality of students, containing an indication of Gogol's impolite act that occurred on April 27, and a denunciation of the teacher of natural law, Professor N. G. Belousov: "... Student 8 passed us along the corridor class, boarder Yanovsky, who, when I asked why he was not in the class, answered that there was no teaching in the 8th grade, because Belousov would not be in the class, Mr. Executor Shishkin said to this: look, what disrespect for the pupils to his tutors that he did not want to stay when he was asked, but I said to him: therefore, it is necessary to instruct children and accustom them to courtesy, to which he, Mr. executor, replied: what can we do when not everyone does this , as it should, but that some mentors often walk along the corridor with their students, arm in arm, and treat them too familiarly? natural law, which, although it is prescribed here to teach according to the system of Mr. Demartini, but Mr. Junior Professor Belousov goes through this natural law according to his notes, following mainly the philosophy of Kant and Mr. Schad; why I humbly ask the conference of the gymnasium - first - to confirm Mr. Jr. professor of jurisprudence Belousov, so that he would certainly be guided by the systematic book of Mr. Demartin in teaching natural law as prescribed to guide; the second is to confirm to him, Belousov, as an inspector of pupils, as well as to Messrs. overseers and moral observers, so that they have unremitting supervision of the moral behavior of pupils of the gymnasium in general. "As a result of this denunciation, a case arose about the unintentional teaching of natural law and the freethinking of Professor N.G. Belousov and a number of other professors.

Gogol, in a letter to G. I. Vysotsky, speaks of his spiritual loneliness in Nizhyn.

Gogol was transferred to the last ninth grade of the Nizhyn gymnasium.

September 26

Professor M. V. Bilevich theater hall had a collision with Gogol, whom Bilevich suspected of being drunk due to his "extraordinary audacity" and refusal to unlock the door of the hall where several boarders were at the first request of Professor Hieropes. An investigation carried out on the same day established: “When asked about what had happened, the boarders, introduced one by one to the conference, testified that when someone knocked at their theater without announcing their name, they, thinking that they were free-coming students, who often interfered with their work in the theatre, did not open the doors, and when Mr. executor knocked and announced his name, they immediately unlocked the door, that Mr. Professor Bilevich, having entered the theater with Prof. Hieropes and executor Shishkin, reproached them for not minding their own business and that they were without a warden, when boarder Yanovsky said that they were in the theater with the permission of their superiors, and, moreover, under the supervision of the eldest, namely boarder Markov, and Mr. Professor Bilevich in vain wants to deprive them pleasure in preparing the theatre, then he, Mr. Bilevich, said to him, Yanovsky: “You are drunk and that is why you talk so much.” All directors were examined by Mr. Fieblig, Doctor of Medicine, and found not only sober, but also without the slightest sign of intoxicating drinks.

Interrogation of high school students Nizhyn

Gogol informs his mother that he will not come home for the Christmas holidays, as he wants to catch up with his studies in the remaining six months before graduation.

December 15

Gogol writes to his mother that he studies a lot and is going to learn three languages. He advises to sell the forest assigned to him by the will of his grandmother, T. S. Gogol-Yanovskaya, in order to send the proceeds to him in Nizhyn to buy textbooks.

During 1827, Gogol wrote the idyll "Hanz Küchelgarten".

The end of "private tests of students in the sciences" in the Nizhyn gymnasium.

June 25 and 28

Public examinations at the Nizhyn gymnasium.

Gogol graduated from the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences, having received the right to the rank of 14th grade in civil service, i.e., a collegiate registrar (those who graduated from the gymnasium with honors were issued with the right to the rank of 12th grade, i.e., the provincial secretary).

End of July - August

Gogol lives in Vasilievka

Gogol's trip to the fair in Kremenchug for the purchase of supplies in connection with the expected arrival of D. P. Troshchinsky.

September 8

Gogol informs Pyotr P. Kosyarovsky that at the beginning of winter he will go to St. Petersburg and, possibly, abroad. To give the mother the proper material support, he draws up a gift inscription, according to which part of the estate belonging to him, with a house, garden, forest and ponds, is left to his mother in eternal possession. On the same day, D.P. Troshchinsky wrote a letter to St. Petersburg to the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Naval Ministry, Lieutenant General L.I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, recommending Gogol to him.

December 13

Gogol, together with A. S. Danilevsky, went to St. Petersburg through Kibintsy.

end of december

Gogol, together with A. S. Danilevsky, arrived in St. Petersburg and settled on Gorokhovaya Street in the house of the merchant Galybin. In 1828, Gogol compiled a collection of extracts: "From the book: Ladder, raising to heaven."

Gogol informs his mother about his arrival in St. Petersburg and complains about the high cost. He writes that he has not yet called on L. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, as he was dangerously ill, but he is going to visit him in a day.

January February

Gogol and A.S. Danilevsky moved to the house of the pharmacist Trut on the Ekaterininsky Canal, near Kokushkin Bridge.

February March

Gogol, having decided to devote himself to literature, makes an unsuccessful attempt to get acquainted with A. S. Pushkin.

February 22

Censored permission of "The Son of the Fatherland and the Northern Archive" (vol. 2, no. 12), where Gogol's poem "Italy" is anonymously published - the first published work of the writer.

February 26

Death of D. P. Troshchinsky.

Gogol moved to the house of Joachim the carriage maker on Bolshaya Meshchanskaya.

Gogol asks his mother to send him his father's Little Russian comedies "The Sheep-Dog" and "Romance with Paraska", and also to write to him about "the customs and manners of the Little Russians". This is due to the start of work on "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka".

Gogol informs his mother that his hopes for a trip abroad have not come true, but he is offered a place with a salary of 1,000 rubles a year, but he has not yet decided whether to accept this service. In addition to information about customs and beliefs, the Little Russians asked him to tell him the rules of some card games.

Gogol received a letter from his mother detailed description Ukrainian wedding, ancient fabrics and women's headdresses.

Gogol sends incognito his poem "Hanz Kühelgarten" to M. P. Pogodin and P. A. Pletnev.

End of June

No. 12 of the Moscow Telegraph came out with a negative review by N. A. Polevoy of "Hanz Kühelgarten".

No. 87 of the "Northern Bee" came out with an anonymous negative review of "Hanz Kühelgarten".

Gogol, by special power of attorney, transferred his part of the estate to the full disposal of his mother.

Gogol informs his mother of his intention to go abroad, using for this the money sent to him to pay for the estate pledged to the Board of Trustees. He writes about some mysterious beauty, the meeting with which supposedly forces him to "run away from himself." Most researchers agree that the beauty existed only in Gogol's imagination and that real reason"escape from oneself" was the failure of "Hanz Küchelgarten".

End of July

Before leaving for Germany, Gogol takes unsold copies of "Hanz Küchelgarten" from booksellers and burns them.

August 13 N.D. Art.

Gogol arrives in Lübeck.

August 23 N.D. Art.

Gogol visits Travemünde.

August 26 N.D. Art.

Gogol returns to Lübeck.

September 22

Gogol returns to Petersburg via Hamburg.

September October

Gogol makes an unsuccessful attempt to enter the stage.

September

Gogol paid a visit to F. V. Bulgarin and handed him greeting poems and was recommended by Bulgarin to serve in the office of the III Department of e. i. in. Offices. Gogol served there until early November.

Resolution of the Minister of the Interior, Count A. A. Zakrevsky, on enrolling Gogol for testing in the Department of State Economy and Public Buildings. At this time, Gogol lives at the address: at Kukushkin Bridge, in Zverkov's house, room No. 16.

end of december

In the almanac "Northern Flowers for 1830" O. M. Somov's positive review of "Hanz Küchelgarten" is published.

Late December - January 1830

Gogol writes an article "Boris Godunov".

Gogol sends his mother blueprints for rebuilding the house. He proposes to make windows and doors in the living room and bedroom in a "Gothic form" by inserting colored glass there.

Gogol translates from French for the "Son of the Fatherland and the Northern Archive" the article "On the trade of Russians in late XVI and the beginning of the 17th century." The translation was paid for, but was not printed.

February 2

Gogol asks his mother to collect "old printed books", "ancient manuscripts about the times of the Hetmanate", asks if any of his acquaintances have "notes kept by the ancestors of some old family."

February 25

Gogol filed a letter of resignation from the Department of State Economy and Public Buildings.

February March

In the February and March books of "Notes of the Fatherland" Gogol's story "Bisavryuk, or Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala" is published without indicating the author.

Gogol submits a petition to the vice-president of the Department of Appanages, Count L. A. Perovsky, for assignment to the service.

Gogol is enrolled as a clerical officer in the Department of Appanages.

By decree of the Governing Senate, Gogol was approved with the rank of collegiate registrar. On the same day, Gogol informed his mother about his studies in painting at the Academy of Arts.

Gogol was appointed assistant clerk with a salary of 750 rubles a year.

December 18

Censored permission of the almanac "Northern Flowers for 1831", where, under the pseudonym OOOO, a "Chapter from the historical novel" by Gogol "Hetman" is printed. O. M. Somov's positive review of the story "Bisavryuk, or Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala" is also published there.

Gogol meets V. A. Zhukovsky, P. A. Pletnev and A. A. Delvig.

No. 1 of Literaturnaya Gazeta was published, which published the chapter "Teacher" from the story "The Terrible Boar" (under the pseudonym "P. Glechik") and the article "A few words about teaching geography to children" (under the pseudonym "G. Yanov").

Came out #4" Literary Newspaper", where Gogol, under his own name, publishes the article "Woman".

February 6

The head of the Patriotic Institute, L. F. Wistinghausen, at the request of P. A. Pletnev, petitions for the appointment of Gogol as a teacher of history for elementary grades with a salary of 400 rubles a year.

February 9

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna imposes a resolution enrolling Gogol as a junior history teacher at the Patriotic Institute.

February 23

Gogol filed a letter of resignation from the Department of Appanages.

Gogol was fired from the Department of Appanages.

Gogol began his service at the Patriotic Institute as a junior history teacher.

No. 17 of the Literaturnaya Gazeta has been published, where the "Success of the Embassy" - an excerpt from the story "The Terrible Boar" - is published anonymously.

Gogol was appointed senior teacher of history at the Patriotic Institute and approved in the rank of titular adviser.

Gogol at the evening at P. A. Pletnev meets A. S. Pushkin.

Censored permission of the first part of "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka".

End of June - mid-August

Gogol lives in Pavlovsk with Princess A.V. Vasilchikova and gives lessons to her weak-minded son from birth. At the same time, Gogol is working on the story "The Enchanted Place". He often visits Tsarskoe Selo, where he sees V. A. Zhukovsky and A. S. Pushkin.

Gogol meets A. O. Rosset (married - Smirnova).

August 15

Gogol returns from Pavlovsk to St. Petersburg, where he settles in the Brunst house on Officerskaya Street in the 2nd Admiralteyskaya part.

Beginning of September

The first part of "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" was published.

September 19

Gogol sends his mother the first part of "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" and asks him to collect Little Russian fairy tales and songs for him.

October 9

Gogol asks his mother to draw up a detailed list of their debt to the treasury.

October 30

Gogol asks his mother to thank A. M. Troshchinskaya for financial assistance in paying interest on the mortgaged estate.

Gogol writes to his mother that he is happy about the upcoming marriage of his sister Maria.

Gogol applies to the Department of Appanages for a service certificate.

Censored permission of the second part of "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka".

February 19

Gogol is present at a dinner given by the book publisher A.F. Smirdin to St. Petersburg writers on the occasion of the transfer of his bookstore from Blue Bridge to Nevsky Prospekt. Together with others, Gogol undertook to write an article for the almanac "Housewarming"

Early March

The second part of "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" has been published.

Gogol sent his mother 500 rubles for the upcoming wedding of his sister Maria.

The wedding of Gogol's sister Maria and Pavel Osipovich Trushkovsky.

The beginning of June

Gogol rented a dacha near Poklonnaya Gora.

Gogol is dismissed.

Gogol arrived in Moscow on the way to Vasilievka. He met MP Pogodin and talked with him about the history of Little Russia.

Gogol, through MP Pogodin, gets acquainted with the Aksakov family.

Early July

Gogol met the poet and nobleman I. I. Dmitriev, M. N. Zagoskin, M. S. Shchepkin.

Gogol left Moscow for Vasilievka.

Gogol arrived in Vasilievka.

In a letter to M.P. Pogodin, Gogol complains about his health and reports that the estate is upset and burdened with debts. He asks to know if a second edition of "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" is possible, since the first edition is completely sold out.

September 29

Gogol from Vasilievka travels to St. Petersburg with his sisters Liza and Anna, who are going to be assigned to the Patriotic Institute.

October 18

Gogol arrived in Moscow. Visited by M.N. Zagoskin and Aksakov, met Kireevsky and O. M. Bodyansky.

October 30

Gogol returns to St. Petersburg and settles in Novy Lane of the 2nd Admiralteyskaya part, in the house of Demut-Malinovsky.

End of october

For being three months late from his vacation, Gogol had 200 rubles deducted from his salary.

The head of the Patriotic Institute makes a suggestion that Gogol's sisters be admitted to the institute at the expense of his salary.

Gogol sees A. S. Pushkin.

December 3

Gogol informs his mother that he was in the Board of Trustees in the case of paying interest on the mortgaged Vasilyevka: “You have nothing to worry too much: it will be given to you to know through the Provincial Board that the Board of Trustees demands and reminds you of interest, and then (if you are going to pay) the governor can give you a certificate that you, as a matter of fact, on the occasion of a crop failure, etc., do not have the opportunity and ask for a delay, and they will leave you alone for the time set by you. you will probably have time to send it in advance and thereby avoid the hassle of going to the governor to ask for evidence.

December 5

Resolution of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on the admission of Gogol's sisters to the Patriotic Institute.

December 8

P. A. Pletnev informs V. A. Zhukovsky that Gogol "is spinning in the mind of a comedy" (meaning the unfinished "Vladimir of the 3rd degree").

The end of the year

Gogol begins the article "A Look at the Compilation of Little Russia" and the story "Old World Landowners".

February 1

Gogol informs M. P. Pogodin that he is working on a general history and general geography in three or two volumes and that A. F. Smirdin printed one and a half hundred copies of the first book, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, since he has no second book without the first bought.

February 20

Gogol writes to M. P. Pogodin about the idea of ​​the comedy "Vladimir of the 3rd degree" and expresses his fear that this comedy may not be allowed to pass censorship.

Together with Prince V. F. Odoevsky and A. S. Pushkin, Gogol plans to publish the collection "Troychatka, or Almanac in three floors."

June August

Gogol lives in Peterhof and at a dacha in Strelna.

July - December

Gogol writes the chapters of the novel "Hetman".

Gogol informs his mother of his move to new apartment at the address: Malaya Morskaya, Lepen's house, No. 97.

September 29

Gogol writes to M.P. Pogodin, who is experiencing a long creative crisis, and asks to apologize on his behalf to M.A. Maksimovich, that he cannot give anything in his almanac.

Gogol was returned from the Patriotic Institute 200 rubles of money previously withheld for the delay in vacation in 1832.

The beginning of November

Gogol received from ses

Maria's "an old notebook with songs".

Gogol writes to M.A. Maksimovich about his creative crisis and that he has nothing to send in the almanac "Dennitsa". He reports that he has begun work on the history of Ukraine. He asks to send him new songs collected by Maksimovich, and in turn promises to send him about two hundred songs.

December 2

Gogol reads to A. S. Pushkin "The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich."

Gogol writes to M.A. Maksimovich about his desire to move to Kyiv and take the chair of world history at the Kiev University of St. Vladimir.

December 23

Gogol writes to A. S. Pushkin that he has drawn up a plan for teaching world history in order to confirm his application for a department at Kiev University. He reports that he is going to finish the history of Ukraine and the south of Russia in Kyiv and write a general history, as well as that he got a chronicle about Ukraine at the end of the 17th century.

December 31

Gogol writes a lyrical appeal to the Guardian Angel and by 1834 "Be my guardian."

The end of the year

Gogol starts work

that above the story "Taras Bulba".

Gogol writes to MP Pogodin about his work on world history and the history of Little Russia.

January February

In "Northern Bee" (No. 34, January 30), in "Moscow Telegraph" (No. 3, censored permission on February 10) and "Molva" (No. 8, censored permission on February 23), Gogol prints "Announcement about the publication of the History of Little Russia."

In the February issue of the "Journal of the Ministry of National Education" Gogol's article "Plan of Teaching World History" was published.

February 12

Gogol writes to M. A. Maksimovich that he would like to leave for Kyiv, and complains that he cannot get the book of I. I. Sreznevsky "Zaporozhian Antiquity" and Galician chronicles anywhere. He asks to send him lists of Maksimovich's songs, in order to send him his recordings of songs later.

February 27

Censorship bans "The Bloody Bandura Player" intended for the "Library for Reading".

Early March

Gogol is elected a full member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature at Moscow University.

For his work at the Patriotic Institute, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna favors Gogol with a diamond ring.

In the April issue of the "Journal of the Ministry of National Education" Gogol's articles "A Look at the Compilation of Little Russia" and "On Little Russian Songs" were published.

Gogol visited the Minister of Public Education S. S. Uvarov and petitioned for the transfer of M. A. Maksimovich to Kyiv.

A. S. Pushkin writes in his diary: "Gogol, on my advice, began the History of Russian Criticism."

Gogol at P. A. Pletnev met with the censor A. V. Nikitenko and reproached him for the censorship exceptions in The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich.

Gogol asks M.A. Maksimovich to apply for him to the trustee of the Kyiv educational district, E.F. Bradka, about getting a job at the Department of World History at Kyiv University.

A. S. Pushkin wrote in his diary: "Gogol read his comedy at Dashkov's." Probably meant "Grooms" - an early edition of "Marriage", where the action takes place in the provinces.

Gogol informs the censor "J

journal of the Ministry of Public Education" to K. S. Serbinovich that S. S. Uvarov gave him a topic for a new article - "On the Middle Ages".

Gogol refused MP Pogodin's offer to apply for an adjunct post at Moscow University.