Diary of a Madman. Story. Gogol N.V.

Having graduated from the gymnasium, at the end of 1828, Nikolai Gogol went to conquer Petersburg, having a rather romanticated performance about him. However, the capital opens before the young writer not only the front doors of the luxurious mansions, but also its dark nooks. Having got a job with a small official, he actively writes, and during 1835-1842 the St. Petersburg Tales were born.

Using his favorite techniques - humor, grotesque, mystical phenomena and border states - Gogol shows the life of ordinary Petersburgers and invents his “little man”, which has become cult for all Russian literature for centuries in advance.