The collection is of particular importance for the work of N.V. Gogol and for the development of Russian literature. The things presented here (“Old World Landowners,” “Viy,” etc.) have become textbooks, and the story “Taras Bulba” still causes fierce controversy. We clarified and cleared the text of the first edition from later layers, supplemented it with fragments, draft notes, and made an extensive, fundamentally new commentary. Thus, the publication will become a significant contribution to domestic Gogol studies. CONTENTS: PART ONEOld-world landowners (6).Taras Bulba (25).PART TWOViy (80).The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich (112).ADDITIONSBisavryuk, or Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala (155). FICTION FRAGMENTS‹Chapters of a historical story› (169).‹Chapter from a historical novel (189).‹Bloody 6andurist› (198).‹“I need to see the colonel”› (205).ARTICLES. NOTES. SKETCHES A look at the compilation of Little Russia (208). About Little Russian songs (217). About the publication of the History of Little Russian Cossacks (224). “Reflections of Mazepa” (225). OPTIONS (227). APPENDICES V.D. Denisov. Historical prose of Gogol (251). Notes (compiled by V.D. Denisov) (412). Text sources (541). List of abbreviations (543). Index of names and mythological characters (550). Index of geographical and topographic names (560). List of illustrations (565).