Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born into a difficult family. The writer's father, Vasily Afanasyevich, also had the ability to literary work, wrote short plays for home theater and was an excellent storyteller. It was he who instilled in his son a love of literature and theater. But Vasily Afanasyevich was a very painful person. He died when the future great Russian writer was only 15. This left a certain mark on Gogol's worldview.
Mother, Maria Ivanovna (before marriage - Kosyarovskaya), came from a large family of a potchmaster. She was distinguished by an extremely complex character, increased anxiety, impressionability and mystical exaltation. There were several mentally ill people in the family of Maria Ivanovna. There is a possibility that she may have inherited certain personality traits from them.
Maria Ivanovna inspired her faith in everything mystical to her offspring, whom she had 12. The writer's mother lost many children in their early age, which is not in the best way affected the woman's mental state. She was not only extremely superstitious and believed in everything otherworldly, but also sometimes behaved strangely. For example, she told her friends that Nikolai Vasilyevich was the author of most modern inventions.
Writer's personal life
It is not surprising that Nikolai Vasilievich was deeply imbued with faith in everything mystical and was also obsessed with the fear of death. In recent years, these personality traits have come to dominate. In his youth, the writer, like his anxious mother, was strikingly different from the general mass of his peers in some oddities of character. He was very reserved and secretive. He was prone to unexpected and dangerous tricks. The students of the Nizhyn gymnasium, where he studied, called Nikolai Vasilievich "beech".
Gogol grew up vulnerable and terribly impractical, not adapted to ordinary life man. Being brilliant writer, Nikolai Vasilyevich did not have his own own house. Yes, and he died in someone else's - in the mansion of Count Tolstoy in Moscow. As required by law, after the death of the writer, an inventory of his property was made. Of all the "wealth" of the deceased, there were only books, heavily worn clothes, a bundle of manuscripts and a gold watch donated by Zhukovsky (in memory of Pushkin). total cost property - 43.88 rubles.
Gogol not only died in poverty. He lived as an ascetic, remaining lonely all his life. At the same time, he often helped young writers in need. The usual human affection of Nikolai Vasilyevich was directed to his selflessly beloved sisters and mother. Gogol never married and had no children. And yet in his life there were 2 women who awakened love feelings.
Favorite women of Nikolai Vasilyevich
Alexandra Smirnova-Rosset
Gogol was not a charming man. Tall and rather ungainly, long nose, he could hardly claim to be popular with the ladies. And because of his views and habit of living in poverty, he simply could not afford to start a family. And yet the writer loved. One of his favorite women was the imperial maid of honor, the beautiful and clever Alexandra Smirnova-Rosset.
The swarthy, black-eyed Sashenka was friendly with many writers and prominent personalities that time. She even inspired many: she was the real muse of Lermontov and Vyazemsky, Pushkin and, of course, Gogol himself. Zhukovsky introduced the latter to the maid of honor. The pretty beauty immediately won Gogol's heart.
A touching and tender relationship began between them. Nikolai Vasilyevich corresponded with Alexandra, shared with her his writing ideas, plans, discussed the works that had just come out of his pen. But he did not even dare to talk to the girl about his love. She intuitively felt that she was loved by Gogol, and responded to the writer with the most tender affection. But he was not a worthy party for such a high-ranking person, so there was no talk of any reciprocity and physical love.
Sashenka married a wealthy and influential official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nikolai Smirnov. The husband was not only a high-ranking person, but also owned a huge Spasskoye estate near Moscow. In the opinion of the world, the maid of honor made a brilliant match.
Maria Sinelnikova
The second woman who touched the writer's heart was his cousin Maria Sinelnikova. She was married off early, but family life spouses did not work out. Maria left her husband and moved to her Kharkov estate Vlasovka. Left alone, she began to go out into the world. One day, during her illness, her relatives visited her - her aunt and her adult children, one of whom was Nikolai Vasilyevich.
It may seem strange the question in the title - is there such a question? Yes, I have. Turn to encyclopedic publications and see: most of them contain a date that does not correspond to the truth. All Soviet encyclopedias and dictionaries, as well as the works of Gogol scholars, for example, or Yuri Mann (I name the most famous names), inform us that Gogol was born in 1809 on March 20 - or April 1, according to the new style. However, if he was born on March 20, then we should celebrate his birthday on April 2 in a new style. (In our century, when recalculating from the old style to the new one, 13 days are added.) In addition, and this is the main thing, Gogol was born on March 19, and not on the 20th. There is irrefutable evidence for this.
According to Maria Ivanovna Gogol, the writer's mother, "he was born in the 9th year on March 19". Cousin Gogol, Maria Nikolaevna Sinelnikova (born Khodarevskaya), wrote to Stepan Petrovich Shevyrev (Gogol's friend and executor) on April 15, 1852: “His birthday is very memorable to me - March 19, on the same day as his younger sister Olga ... ". Olga Vasilievna Gogol (married Golovnya) was born, as you know, on March 19, 1825, and has repeatedly said that she was born on the same day as her brother. “He was sixteen years older than me,” she recalled, “he was born in the ninth, and I in the twenty-fifth year, and notice, on the same day, March 19, we were born: he is the first son and I - last daughter in our family" .
In 1852, shortly after Gogol's death, the Department of the Russian Language and Literature Russian Academy Sciences decided to publish his biography. Shevyrev was entrusted to write it. In the summer of 1852, he went to the writer's homeland to collect material. In his travel diary, Shevyrev, according to Gogol's relatives, made an entry: “I was born in 1809, on March 19, at 9 o'clock in the evening. Trofimovsky's word when he looked at the newborn: “There will be glorious son”» .
Yuri Mann claims that Gogol "was born on March 20, 1809 in Trakhimovsky's house". Meanwhile, Gogol, apparently, was born in a different place. According to the authoritative testimony of a fellow countryman and one of Gogol's closest friends, Mikhail Alexandrovich Maksimovich, the apartment of Maria Ivanovna Gogol-Yanovskaya in Sorochintsy "was in the house of General Dmitrieva, in which he was born March 19 Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol» . And, we note in parentheses, of course, Gogol's mother made a vow to call him Nikolai not "in honor of the miraculous image of Nikolai, kept in the Dikan church," as Y. Mann writes, but in honor, before miraculously whom she prayed for a son. It was on March 19 that Gogol's friends celebrated his birthday. The same Mikhail Maksimovich wrote to Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov on March 19, 1857: “Today is the birthday of our unforgettable Gogol, and I vividly remember how for seven years we dined with you on this day of the capture of Paris! My God, how well I lived that month of March, and how often I then spent time with you with Gogol ... ". On March 19, 1849, Gogol celebrated his 40th birthday at S.T. Aksakov. The following year, 1850, he dined that day at the Aksakovs' together with M.A. Maksimovich and O.M. Bodyansky. Also present were A.S. Khomyakov and S.M. Solovyov. They drank to Gogol's health and sang Ukrainian folk songs.On March 19, Gogol was congratulated on his birthday by relatives and people close to him in spirit. “Your letter (of March 19) with congratulations came to me on the day when I was honored to partake of the Holy Mysteries,” Gogol informed his mother and sisters on April 3, 1849. Nadezhda Nikolaevna Sheremeteva, the aunt of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev, wrote to Gogol on February 12, 1843 from Pokrovsky near Moscow: “I wanted to write to you and did not receive your letter, so that by March 19 my congratulations would reach you. I congratulate you, my dear friend, on your birth; this day is important for a Christian, we receive the right to inherit eternal bliss, as we will receive if we go through this wandering, as a Christian should ... ".
Biographers of Gogol, primarily P.A. Kulish and V.I. Shenrock, was considered the date of birth of the writer on March 19. Doubts about this arose after the publication of an extract from the parish register of the Transfiguration Church in Sorochintsy, where Gogol was baptized. Here, under No. 25, the following entry was made: “On March 20, the son Nikolai was born to the landowner Vasily Yanovsky and baptized on 22. The abbot John Bevolovsky prayed and baptized.” In the column about the successor, "Mr. Colonel Mikhail Trakhimovsky" is indicated. An extract from the register of births was first published by A. I. Ksenzenko. Later (in 1908) a photocopy of it appeared. Yuri Mann believes that "the publication of these documents clarified the question of Gogol's date of birth - March 20, 1809 ...". However, many researchers insisted on the error of the date indicated in the church book. For example, N. Lerner in the anniversary year of 1909, when the question of Gogol's birthday was raised again, wrote: “In general, metrical records, giving the correct date of baptism, quite often nearby are mistaken in the date of birth; the day of baptism is recorded by an eyewitness and a participant in the rite itself, and the birth is dated on the basis of other people's words. Gogol was baptized on March 22, and it is quite possible that the testimony given on that day to the church parable by the relatives of the newborn that the child was born three days ago, that is, March 19, was understood as the third day, that is, March 20. An example of exactly the same error in the date of birth is given by the register of births, in which the birth and baptism of Pushkin are recorded ... It is known that Pushkin's birthday is May 26th. The poet himself knew this ... Pushkin's friends and acquaintances knew this day; so, Baron E.F. Rosen in 1831 sent Pushkin greeting verses entitled “May 26th”, where he said: “As a triumph, as the best day of spring, we celebrate the birth of the poet ...” ... Meanwhile, in the church book, Pushkin’s birth is dated on the 27th ... Believe after that, registers of births!” .Not all modern literary scholars dealing with Gogol agree with the unreliable version of the birth date of the great Russian writer. Doctor philological sciences Igor Alekseevich Vinogradov in a commentary on the new edition of P.A. Kulisha writes: “Gogol’s birthday, according to the testimony of his mother, is exactly March 19, despite the erroneous entry about this in the register of births (March 20). Probably, from childhood, Gogol remembered that his birthday coincided with the day of the capture of Paris on March 19, 1814 (on that day he was five years old), and therefore subsequently celebrated both of these events together ... ". The latest encyclopedic editions also correctly indicate the date of Gogol's birth.
April 1 is the birthday of the great Russian writer Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. However, the question of the year of Gogol's birth is highly controversial. So, to a simple question about the date of birth, Gogol always answered evasively. What is the reason for such secrecy? The mystery of the writer's birth may have originated in youthful years mother of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
When asked about his date of birth, Gogol answered evasively ...
Still: according to the lists of the Poltava district school, where he studied with his younger brother Ivan, it meant that Ivan was born in 1810, and Nikolai was born in 1811. Biographers explained this as a little trick of Vasily Yanovsky, who did not want the eldest son to be an overgrown among his schoolmates. But the birth certificate issued to the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences stated that Gogol was born in 1810. And after a hundred years, he became older by another year.
In 1888, an extract from the parish register of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in the town of Sorochintsy, Mirgorod Povet, Poltava province was first published in the journal "Russian Starina" for the first time: "1809. No. 25 - On March 20, the son Nikolai was born to the landowner Vasily Yanovsky and baptized. The abbot Ioan Belobolsky prayed and baptized, and Colonel Mikhail Trakhimovsky was the recipient.
The successor - the godfather of the poet - after twenty years military service retired and settled in Sorochintsy. The Trakhimovsky and Gogol-Yanovsky families have been friendly for a long time and were distantly related. Everything is logical, but questions remained. Because it was closer from Vasilievka to Mirgorod (where there was a church), to Kibintsy (where Gogol's mother and father served).
It was possible to drive further in the other direction, because in the legendary Dikanka, covered with ancient legends, there were two churches: Trinity and the ancestral church of Kochubeev, St. Nicholas, which was visited by Gogols as distant relatives. It was said that it was in front of him that young Maria made her vow: in the event of the birth of a long-awaited son, he would be called Nikolai, and a church would be built in Vasilievka.
In 1908, on the eve of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, the Department of the Russian Language and Literature of the Russian Imperial Academy Sciences officially confirmed the fact of the birth of N.V. Gogol - March 20 (April 1 to the present), 1809.
theatrical romance
The genealogy of Gogol's mother is described in detail by historians. Grandfather Kosyarevsky, after military service, became the Oryol postmaster with a salary of 600 rubles a year. His son was "assigned" to the post office ... In 1794, the Kosyarovskys had a daughter, Masha, who was given to be raised by her aunt Anna, in the family of Major General A.P. Troshchinsky, since the parents themselves lived too modestly. Masha "started" early. She played many roles in Troshchinsky's home theater, including the penitent Magdalene. And - played ...
At the age of 14 (I write in words - at fourteen), contrary to Russian laws, which forbade marriages at an early age, married Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky (1777-1825), the owner of a small farm Kupchin, which was called Yanovshchina, and then Vasilievka. And Maria inherited the Yareska estate: only 83 acres of land (about 83 hectares), the number of "population" owned by the Kosyarovskys is 19 people. Why did the Yanovskys and Kosyarevskys intermarry so quickly? Because the "schoolgirl" Masha was pregnant. From whom?
In 1806, being in disgrace, General Dmitry Troshchinsky appeared in Kibintsy. He, an old bachelor, had illegitimate daughter and "pupil" Skobeeva, who became his favorite. In those days, the strict law of Peter I was in effect: to deprive all illegitimate children of the title of nobility, write them down as soldiers, peasants or artists. That is why so many artists, poets and writers have appeared in Russia in two generations.
By the way, isn't that why Taras Shevchenko became an artist? It is easy to figure out whose illegitimate son he is. But unlike Engelhardt, Dmitry Troshchinsky knew the laws Russian state and loopholes in these laws. It is no coincidence that he was appointed Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General. Therefore, for "legal" confirmation noble origin his illegitimate son, he gave it "for adoption" to his poor relatives.
When young Masha "became heavier" at the age of 14, then, as they would say now, an article "for the molestation of minors" shone to him. And an illegitimate child had to be given to soldiers or artists. The general insured himself twice. He instructed his manager Vasya Yanovsky to urgently marry Masha. And he gave a huge amount of dowry. (Gogol's sister points to 40 thousand, but apparently she made an adjustment for inflation, which was in Russia after the war of 1812).
And when Nikolai Gogol was born, he was made two years older. So he, by school documents Poltava, was born in 1811. Because Masha (born in 1794) by that time was already 17 years old. Everything is legal. (Troshinsky turned 59 years old. He reached the age that people say: "Gray hair in a beard - a demon in a rib").
No matter how later the competitors "dug" under the Minister of Justice, they could not prove anything. There was no DNA paternity test back then. Nevertheless, "well-wishers" regularly reported on Troshchinsky's intimate affairs. Everyone in the district knew everything: who was walking with whom ... Now, and two hundred years ago, if you sneeze on one side of the village, then on the other they will say: "Bless you!"
So I had to send Masha to give birth to an old friend - military doctor Mikhail Trakhimovsky in Bolshie Sorochintsy. The place is lively. Five roads leave the town at once: there is where to come from and where, in which case, to leave ...
There was even a legend of "cover" that Gogol was born on the road, almost at the very bridge over the Psel River, which he so colorfully described in the story " Sorochinskaya Fair". I checked "on the ground": there is no bridge on the road from Vasilyevka (now Gogolevo) to Sorochintsy. Here the "security service" of the Minister of Justice, spreading these rumors, did something unfinished.
The reader has the right to ask: where did the general's money go? They have become an investment. Yareski came to life, fairs were regularly held in them. A large distillery was built there, which used Steam engine. Distilling (vodka production) was a good business. V. A. Gogol subsequently managed the Troshchinsky household, being the secretary of Dmitry Prokofievich, who in 1812 was elected marshal of the nobility of the Poltava province. And in the home theater of D. P. Troshchinsky in Kibintsy, comedies by Vasily Afanasyevich were staged. Everyone is fine.
By the way, part of the money was spent on the construction of a church in Vasilyevka, on Gogol's education in Nizhyn: 1,200 rubles a year (then Troshchinsky saved money: he transferred Kolya to the "state order"). When Gogol in St. Petersburg "grabbed Venus by the intimate place", then 1,450 silver rubles were spent on the treatment of a" bad disease "in Germany (travel, food, medicines, consultations). (For comparison: one goose then cost one ruble. A few years later, Gogol received 2,500 rubles for staging The Inspector General). It cost the poet a lot to visit a public institution.Since then, he treated women with restraint, but he started well: "We are maturing and improving; but when? When we comprehend a woman more deeply and more perfectly. (Nikolai Gogol, "Woman", "LG", 1831)
Date of birth: April 1, 1809
Date of death: February 21, 1852
Place of birth: Sorochintsy, Poltava province
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol- Russian writer, playwright, Gogol N.V.- poet and essayist.
One of the classics of Russian and world literature.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - a famous Russian playwright, publicist and prose writer, was born in Sorochintsy (Poltava Province) on April 1, 1809. His father, Vasily Afanasyevich, was a very wealthy landowner who had about 400 serfs, his mother was very young and active woman.
The writer spent his childhood in the conditions of colorful Ukrainian life, which he loved very much and remembered well. He knew the life of the lords and peasants very well, at the age of ten he began to study with a teacher in Poltava, and then entered the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences. Researchers say that Gogol could not be called a successful student, most of the subjects were given to him with great difficulty, but he stood out among his peers with an excellent memory, the ability to use the Russian language correctly, and also in drawing.
Gogol was actively engaged in self-education, wrote a lot, subscribed to metropolitan magazines with his friends. Even in his youth, he began to write a lot, tried himself in both prose and poetry. Gogol concentrated his attention on managing the estate after his father's death. In 1828 he graduated from the gymnasium and went to St. Petersburg.
metropolitan life was very expensive, the wealth in the provinces was not enough to lead a frivolous life in St. Petersburg. At first he decided to become an actor, but the theaters refused to accept him. Work as an official did not attract him at all, and therefore he turned his attention to literature. In 1829, his idyll "Hanz Küchelgarten" was harshly received by critics and readers, and therefore Gogol personally destroyed the entire first edition.
In 1830 he nevertheless entered public service and began to work in the department of appanages. In the same year he started a large number of a variety of useful acquaintances in literary circles. The story "Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala" was immediately published, and one year later "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" saw the light of day.
In 1833, Gogol was attracted by the prospect of working in the scientific field, he began to cooperate with St. Petersburg University at the department common history. Here he spent the next two years of his life. In the same period, he completed the collections "Arabesques" and "Mirgorod", which were published immediately after his departure from the university.
There were those who desperately criticized his work. Pressure from critics was one of the reasons why Gogol decided to take a break from literature and went to Europe. He lived in Switzerland, France and Italy. It was at this time that he completed the first volume " dead souls". In 1841, he decided that he needed to return to Russia, where he was warmly received by Belinsky and contributed to the publication of the first volume.
Immediately after the publication of this book, Gogol set to work on the second volume, at which point the writer was worried creative crisis. Belinsky's devastating review of the book "Selected passages from correspondence with friends" was a big blow to his literary pride. This criticism was received very negatively. At the end of 1847, Gogol went to Naples, from where he left for Palestine.
Return to Russia in 1848 was characterized by inconstancy in the life of the writer, he still could not find a place for himself. He lived in Moscow, Kaluga, Odessa, then again in Moscow. He was still working on the second volume of Dead Souls, but he felt a significant deterioration in his state of mind. He became interested in mysticism, he was often haunted by strange thoughts.
On February 11, 1852, in the middle of the night, he unexpectedly decided to burn the manuscript of the second volume. He said that evil spirits made him do it. A week later, he felt weak all over his body, took to his bed and refused any treatment.
The doctors decided that it was necessary to start compulsory procedures, but no tricks of the doctors improved the patient's condition. On February 21, 1852, Gogol died. He rests in the cemetery of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.
Gogol was one of the strangest representatives of the Russian classical literature. His work was received in different ways, critics praised and loved him. On the other hand, he was strongly constrained by the Nikolaev censorship.
Bulgakov and Nabokov looked back at Gogol in their work, many of his works were filmed in Soviet time.
The main milestones in the life of Nikolai Gogol:
Birth in Sorochintsy April 1, 1809
- Moving to Poltava in 1819
- Beginning of studies at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in Nizhyn in 1821
- The beginning of the Petersburg period in 1828
- Publication of the idyll "Hanz Küchelgarten" in 1829
- Publication of "Evenings on the eve of Ivan Kupala" in 1830
- Print "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" in 1831
- Work at the Faculty of History at St. Petersburg University in 1834
- The publication of the collections "Arabesques" and "Mirgorod" in 1835
- Beginning of European travel in 1836
- Publication of the first volume of "Dead Souls" in 1841
- Destruction of the second volume for unknown reasons in 1852
- Death of N. V. Gogol on February 21, 1852
Interesting facts from the biography of Nikolai Gogol:
The writer was not married, was suspicious of women, and was a reserved person; researchers speak of his latent homosexuality and the presence of a secret love for several women
- There is a version that the writer did not die, but plunged into Sopor after which he was buried alive
- The skull of the writer was stolen from the grave in 1909 until the perestroika period, the public did not know about this incident
- Gogol could hardly endure a thunderstorm, he was very afraid of thunder and lightning
- The writer did a lot of needlework, was an excellent cook and had a sweet tooth
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born on April 1 (March 20, old style) 1809 in the village of Sorochintsy, Mirgorodsky district, Poltava province Russian Empire(now the village of Velikiye Sorochintsy of the Velikiye Sorochintsy Village Council of the Mirgorodsky District Poltava region Ukraine). He died in Moscow in 1852 on March 4 (February 21, old style).
Father - Vasily Afanasyevich Gogol-Yanovsky (1777-1825). He wrote plays for home theater and was an excellent storyteller.
Mother - Maria Ivanovna Gogol-Yanovskaya (maiden Kosyarovskaya) (1791-1868). She was married at the age of fourteen. According to contemporaries, she was exceptionally good-looking.
Nikolai Vasilyevich was born in the ancient noble family Gogol-Yanovskikh. They named it in honor of Saint Nicholas. At birth, he received the surname Yanovsky. The family said that they come from an old Cossack family.
Until the age of ten he lived with his parents. At the age of ten, in 1819, Nikolai's parents took him to Poltava to prepare for the gymnasium.
From 1821 to 1828 he studied at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences of Prince Bezborodko in Nizhyn (now the Nizhyn Law Lyceum).
In December 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he unsuccessfully tried to become an actor and an official.
In 1829 there was the first unsuccessful attempt in literature. Under the pseudonym V. Alov published the poem "Hanz Kühelgarten", but after the release he himself destroyed the entire circulation due to poor reviews from critics.
In 1829 he went abroad for a month to Lübeck, but in September of the same year he returned to St. Petersburg.
Thanks to the patronage of Thaddeus Bulgarin, he gets a job in the III department (political police in the Russian Empire), where he worked for a short time and since 1830 has been working in the department of appanages ( government agency managing the property).
In 1831, with the help of Zhukovsky, he received a recommendation for a teacher's position at the Women's Patriotic Institute.
In 1831-1832 he published Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, his first major work, which was the beginning of his fame, published under the pseudonym Rudy Panko.
In 1834 he was appointed to the post of adjunct in the department of history at St. Petersburg University.
In 1836, the printed edition of the comedy The Inspector General was published and theatrical performance, thanks to the permission of Emperor Nicholas. The theme of The Inspector General was new to the Russian scene, which caused a split in public opinion. For conservatives it was a demarche, for freethinkers it was a manifesto.
From June 1836 he moved abroad. Rome, which became like a second home for Gogol, France, Germany, Switzerland. At this time, he is seriously working on " Dead souls". In 1839 he came to Russia, where he read the completed chapters to his friends. By the summer of 1841, the first volume was ready and Nikolai Vasilievich went to Russia to print the poem. Here it faces great censorship obstruction, but thanks to the connections and support of influential friends, the work, with some exceptions, was allowed to print and in 1842 was published under the title “The Adventures of Chichikov or Dead Souls". In 1845, due to a spiritual crisis, he burned the manuscript of the second volume of Dead Souls and was about to enter a monastery.
At the beginning of 1848, he left Naples for Palestine to bow to the Holy Sepulcher. And from there, through Constantinople and Odessa, he returns to Russia.
In the last years of his life, Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol became very religious. In 1852, a week before Great Lent, he almost stops eating, stops leaving the house. On February 18 (according to the old style) he completely stops eating, and on February 20 the medical council decides to forcibly treat Gogol, but on February 21 (March 4, according to the new style) Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol dies.
He was buried on February 24 (March 7, according to a new style) at the cemetery of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. May 31, 1931 reburied at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
