Dead Souls. Gogol N.V.

“Speaking about“ dead souls ”, you can talk plenty of one about Russia” - this is the judgment of the poet and critic P. A. Vyazemsky explains the special place of Gogol’s poem in the history of Russian literature: the enormous success of readers and the extraordinary acuteness of the controversy around the main Gogol's book, and the variety of opinions expressed, each of which in one way or another draws into reflections on the nature of the national character and cultural consciousness, about the present and future of Russia.