Dead Souls. Gogol N.V.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852)-a famous prose writer and playwright, a classic of Russian literature.

about his own work, Gogol said: "It only came out that I was taken from reality". The writer often turned to myths, legends and other folklore sources, which is why the real world in his works was often intertwined with fantastic.

The poem “Dead Souls” was initially conceived as an indication of the path to good and was supposed to consist of three parts, What would become a kind of repetition of “hell”, “purge” and “paradise” on Dante. As you know, the third part was not started and only the drafts of the second remained, which became the reason for the appearance of many different legends. One of them says that an unrelated volume is stored among the papers of the former contemporary of the writer.