Gogol in Life is one of those superbly written non-fiction books that are more enjoyable to read than any novel. Having collected and systematized the authentic testimonies of contemporaries about Gogol, as well as the letters and notes of the writer himself, Veresaev brilliantly put them together into a remarkable single work, which the critic and leading Russian expert on Gogol Igor Zolotussky brilliantly called “a portrait of a “strange” genius shimmering with living colors.”< /p>