Gogol's life. Basina M.Ya.

“The St. Petersburg Tale” is a artistic and documentary work dedicated to the beginning of the creative path of N. V. Gogol and its formation as a writer. This is a book about how a young man from the Ukrainian province is Nicosh Gogol, a dreamer and a dreamer, being in the imperial capital, passes through the collapse of ambitious hopes, poverty tests and failures. Absolute acts, catastrophic first literary experience, funny boasting in letters to his mother who dreamed of seeing his son no less than a minister, when he hardly receives a small bureaucratic position - a deeply unusual person gradually appears through all this. A.S. Pushkin and V. A. Zhukovsky, P. A. Vyazemsky and A. A. Delvig are drawn to the young provincial. In front of the reader’s eyes, a mysterious process of awakening and mature talent, the transformation of the young provincial loser into the great Russian writer Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The bright literary life of St. Petersburg, the colorful theater world, the harsh customs of Russia of the era of Nicholas I - all this is the background for a fascinating and instructive story about how true talent defeats the unhealthy fate.