Dead souls biography

Pushkin is supposedly in September. Information about this goes back to the "author's confession", written in 1 year and published posthumously, and is confirmed by reliable, albeit indirect evidence. It is known that Gogol took the thought of the “auditor” and “dead souls” from Pushkin, but it is less known that Pushkin did not quite willingly give him his property. Gogol in Rome in the summer of the year.

He began to write dead souls. The plot stretched to the predatory novel and, it seems, will be very funny. In search of a living soul: "Dead souls." The writer is a critic - reader. Moscow: Book, the fate of books. The work continued in the fall of the year in Switzerland, then in Paris and later in Italy. By this time, the author had an attitude to his work as the “holy testament of the poet” and to a literary feat, which at the same time has the meaning of the patriotic, must discover the fate of Russia and the world.

In Baden-Baden, in August, Gogol read an unfinished poem in the presence of the maid of honor of the imperial court A. Smirnova nee Rosset and son N. Karamzin Andrei Karamzin, in October of the year, read part of the manuscript A. Work on the first volume took place in Rome at the end of the year - the beginning of the year. Zhukovsky, N. Prokopovich and other close friends.

The writer was engaged in the final finish of the first volume in Rome from the end of September to August. Returning to Russia, Gogol read the head of the novel in the Aksakov House and prepared the manuscript for the publication. At a meeting of the Moscow Censorship Committee on December 12, obstacles to the publication of the manuscript, transferred to the censor I.

Snegirev, who, in all likelihood, introduced the author to the could arise complications, found out. Fearing a censorship ban, in January of the year Gogol through V. Belinsky transported the manuscript to St. Petersburg and asked friends to A. Smirnov, V. Odoevsky, P. Pletnev, M. Vielgorsky to help with the passage of censorship. Nikitenko, however, with the changed name and without the "Tale of Captain Kopeikin." Even before receiving a censorship instance, the manuscript began to be recruited in the printing house of Moscow University.

Gogol himself undertook to arrange the cover of the novel, wrote in small letters “Chichikov’s adventures or” and large “Dead Souls”. In May, the book was published under the name “Chichikov’s adventures, or dead souls, the poem N. Gogol intended to make a three -volume poem, and wrote the second volume where positive images were displayed and an attempt to depict Chichikov’s moral degeneration.

Gogol began work on the second volume presumably in the year. Work on it continued in Germany, France and mainly in Italy in years. At the end of June or early July, the writer burned the manuscript of the second volume. In the work on the second volume in the ideas of the writer, the meaning of the work grew beyond the boundaries of literary texts, which made the plan practically unstable.

On the night of February 11 to 12, Gogol burned the white manuscript of the second volume the only witness Semyon was the only witness and died ten days later. Black manuscripts of the four chapters of the second volume in incomplete form were discovered when opening the writer's papers sealed after his death. The autopsy was made on April 28 by S. Shevryv, Count A.

Tolstoy and the Moscow Civil Governor Ivan Kapnist the son of the poet and playwright V. Shevyrev, who was also busy at its publication, was engaged in the overdling of manuscripts. Lists of the second volume spread even before his publication. For the first time preserved heads of the second volume of “dead souls” were published as part of a complete works of Gogol in the summer of the year.

Together with the first four chapters of the second volume, one of the last chapters now belongs to the earlier than other chapters, the editorial office.