Dead Souls. Gogol N.V.

“In“ Dead Souls ”, the author took such a great step that everything, hitherto written by him, seems weak and pale in comparison with them,” Belinsky wrote about Gogol's immortal creation. The plot “donated” by Pushkin gave the basis for the adventurous-Plutovsky novel, but the traditional genre could not accommodate the whole wealth of the Gogol’s idea. “All Rus' will appear in it,” Gogol said about his future novel, later named by him with a poem. Such a definition of a prosaic work is not by chance-the image of Rus', a three bird created by the writer, created by the writer. “Rus', where are you rushing? Give an answer. Does not give an answer... "