The great writer Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, a classic of Russian and Ukrainian literature, was also an excellent publicist. His articles and essays about the...

...A rooster crowed. This was already the second cry; The dwarves heard it first. The frightened spirits rushed, randomly, into the windows and doors in orde...

The book includes works from one of Gogol's three cycles - St. Petersburg stories (1835–1842). They clearly demonstrated the deep critical genius of the “gre...

“By God, I’m already tired of telling you! What do you think? Really, it’s boring: tell, and tell, and you can’t get rid of it! Well, if you please, I’ll tel...

Oh St. Petersburg, incredible and magnetic! Here, more than anywhere else, you can see your own slowly riding among the romantic rooftops, if you soar above ...

The “Petersburg Tales” by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852) describe life in St. Petersburg in the 30s and 40s of the 19th century. The collection includ...

“Everyone agrees that no book has ever generated so many varied interpretations as Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends.” And what is most rema...

“I was seriously ill; death was already close. Having gathered the rest of my strength and taking advantage of the first minute of complete sobriety of my mi...

“We all came out of Gogol’s “Overcoat,” Russian writers rightly say...” noted the French critic E.-M. de Vogüet in 1885. Few people today would disagree with...

“The purpose of this book is to show in what completeness and inner deep connection our Liturgy is performed, to young men and people who are still beginning...

“The beginning, root and confirmation of everything is love for God. But for us this is the beginning at the end, and we love everything that is in the world...