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Selected places from correspondence with friends of Gogol

The book’s concept refers to the spring of 1845, to the period of a prolonged attack of the illness and the writer’s spiritual depression. From the preface we learn that, at death, he wrote a will, which is the first part of the book. The will does not include any personal, family details, it consists of an intimate conversation between the author and Russia, that is, the author speaks and punishes, and Russia listens to him and promises to fulfill it. The will was permeated with religious and mystical sentiments, and the pretentious preaching tone of addressing compatriots corresponded to the general pathos and ideological plan of the “Selected Places.” The preface and testament are followed by letters. In these letters, the author depicts himself as if he had become clear because of his illness, filled with the spirit of love, meekness, and especially humility…

Their content corresponds to this spirit: they are not letters, but rather strict and

sometimes formidable exhortations of the teacher to the disciples… He teaches, teaches, advises, reproaches, forgives, etc. To him, all are treated with questions, and he leaves no one without answer. He himself says: “Everything instinct appealed to me, demanding help and advice:” Lately, I have even been able to receive letters from people who are almost completely unknown to me, and to give answers to them that I could not give before. And by the way, I’m no smarter than anyone. “

He himself recognizes himself as a kind of village priest or even the pope of his Catholic world. In his book, he argued that the Orthodox Church and the Russian clergy are one of the salutary principles not only for Russia, but also for Europe. Even about the Russian autocracy, he began to say that it has a national character. He began to justify the enslavement of the peasants. The exit of “Selected places…” brought on their author a real critical storm.

Sharp and principled criticism of the book was subjected to Belinsky in the review of “Contemporary” and especially

in a letter to Gogol on July 15, 1847. from Salzburg. Councils and teachings “Correspondence” were so far in content from what Gogol’s former creations carried, and Belinsky immediately responded to them. The article in “Contemporary” about “Selected places” he publishes immediately after the publication of the book, almost hastily, feeling the need to immediately answer its author. It is unpardonable for Belinsky to self-flagellate Gogol, who calls all his former compositions “rash and immature”, the naive assertions in the mouth of the author of the Inspector General that bribery in Russia would have decreased if the wives of bureaucrats had not eagerly tried to shine in the light. Wild advice looks like ” concerning the rural court and the massacre “and attempts to teach the landowner to argue with the peasants for” educational “purposes.” “What is this? Where are we?” Belinsky asks, and it seems that these exclamations of despair forced Gogol to object to Belinsky in a letter written (June 20, 1847, which elicited Belinsky’s reply.

A letter to Gogol occupies a very special place in the heritage of Belinsky, and indeed throughout the history of Russian social thought. Since the letter was not intended to be printed, the critic could express himself with complete frankness. Belinsky speaks in it with the preaching of the need for Russia to destroy serfdom and the autocracy, for educating the people. He rejects Gogol’s view of the Russian people as a people

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Selected places from correspondence with friends of Gogol

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