Biography about Gogol

The house of Dr. M. the Great Sorochintsy of the Mirgorod district of the Poltava province - was born in the family of a landowner of medium wealth. Children's years spent Vasilyevka in the parental estate. In - 19, Gogol studied at the Poltava boat district school; In - beginning.

Sorochinsky, in - 28 studied at the gymnasium of the highest sciences in Nizhin. In these years, the versatile artistic talent of Gogol appeared: he painted landscapes, drawings; Later, he performed sketches of cities, sketches of covers, etc. Gogol, however, associated his future primarily with the public service, dreaming of a legal career. In the year, Gogol moved to St. Petersburg where he unsuccessfully tried to get into the service.

At the beginning of the year, the poem "Italy" appeared, and in the spring of the same year, under the pseudonym V. Alov, the idyll was published in the pictures "" Hans Kuchelgarten ". The poem caused a sharp critical response of N. Polevoi, Gogol burned the non -eared copies of the book and went abroad to Northern Germany. In September, he returned to St. Petersburg and at the end of the year entered the Department of State Economy and Public Buildings of the Ministry of the Interior; And in April, to the department of folklies at first with a scribe, and then an assistant to the head of the head.

At the same time, his literary activity was intensified. In the year, Gogol met V. Zhukovsky, P. Pletnev and, possibly by A. Delvig, and in May at the Eve of Pletnev, he was presented by A. The first cycle of novels on the farm near the savage "brought Gogol wide recognition. After the appearance of the "evenings ..." Gogol became a literary celebrity: in the summer and autumn he was enthusiastically met in Moscow by S.

Aksakov and K. Aksakov, M. Shchepkin, I. Kireevsky, S. Shevyrev, M. In the year he again visited Moscow, his first meeting was held from V. The Mirgorod and Arabesques, which followed the prose book of Gogol, expanded his first prose book of Gogol. The range of his work. In the years, Gogol was an adjunct professional at St. Petersburg University; He also troubles unsuccessfully about the receipt of the Department of History at the University of Kiev.

History classes went in parallel with the development of artistic and historical intentions, of which the most significant is the unfinished drama "Alfred" to the plot of the Western European Middle Ages, as well as the story "Taras Bulba" from Ukrainian history. Gogol’s historicism led him to the “auditor” - comedy with an exceptionally deep, truly philosophical content was delivered for the first time in Mickevich; Here he received the news of the death of A.

in March Gogol for the first time visited Rome, where he met Russian artists working there. In Rome, most of the "dead souls" was written, the work on which was started in Gogol came to Russia, read the friends of the head of "dead souls"; At the end of the first half, Gogol is again in his homeland, busy printing the first volume in May; In the beginning, the "works" of Gogol in 4 volumes are published.

Since June, Gogol lived abroad in France, Germany, Italy, continuing to work on the 2nd of the poem. In the 1st half, Gogol’s well-being worsened sharply; His forces were undermined by intense and, as it seemed to him ineffective labor. In the summer, Gogol burned the manuscript of the 2nd volume to start work first. In January, while in Naples, he seriously survived the news of the death of N.

Language, one of his closest friends. In the same year, the “selected places from correspondence with friends” came out - a work that Gogol considered almost his first “practical book”, since she stated his main ideas in a direct, journalistic form. Gogol proceeded from the provision that no public progress would be strong without the upbringing and re -education of everyone in the spirit of peasant ethics.

The release of the “selected places ...” brought a real storm of criticism to Gogol, including from his friends S. Aksakov, S. Shevyrev and others. Since December, he lived with A. Tolstoy in Moscow, continuing to work on the 2nd volume of the poem and other works, including “thoughts about the divine liturgy” in Paris. At the end of January, signs of a new spiritual crisis were discovered: Gogol seriously survived the death of E.

Khomyakova, Sisters N. The former grave of N. Gogol in the Holy Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Gogol's death caused a deep shock in Russian society. From the university church, where the funeral service took place, to the place of burial in the Holy Danilov Monastery, the coffin was carried in their hands by students and professors of the university in the year the remains of Gogol were transferred to the Novodevichy cemetery.

Gogol’s influence on subsequent literature is huge: his work contributed to realistic styles, starting from a natural school to a Russian novel; Stimulated the strengthening and enrichment of the grotesque-fantastic direction. At the same time, Gogol’s religious and moral searches largely determined the ontological problems both in fiction and in Russian religious philosophy of the late XIX - first half of the 20th centuries.

In the 20th century, the influence of Gogol, overcoming national borders, spread to the entire world culture. Big Russian Encyclopedia: 30 tons.