Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. Mirgorod. Petersburg novels. Gogol N.V.

“We all left the Gogol’s“ Overcoat, ”Russian writers say rightly...”-said French critic E.-M. de Vogue in 1885. Today, few people will not agree with this statement today. How did the story of the stolen overcoat provide Gogol with such an honorable place in the literature? To this question, every generation of readers is looking for its answer, discovering for itself a mysterious, strange, fantastic Gogol world. Three cycles of his stories are published in this publication: “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” (1831–1832) - Gogol's first collection of Gogol and enthusiastically met by A. S. Pushkin; “Mirgorod” (1835), which became an organic continuation of “evenings”; As well as the “St. Petersburg Tales”, which, although they were not united by the author into the cycle, but in 1842 were printed together in his collected works and went down in the history of literature as a whole. The publication includes illustrations of artists of the XIX - the beginning of the twentieth century: P. M. Boklevsky, V. M. Vasnetsov, D. N. Kardovsky, B. M. Kustodiev, V.E. Makovsky, P.P. Sokolova, K. A.