Biography of Gogol - one of the most mysterious writers

From school, we know the work of N.V. Gogol, his main works. But here we will focus only on one aspect: how life circumstances influenced the personality of the writer. Researchers note that the classic of Russian literature consistently went through different periods: naturalistic, passion for Ukrainian folklore and mysticism, religious journalism and so on. What influenced the formation and formation of such a complex genius?

N.V. Gogol. Biography: a brief pedigree

Everyone knows that this mysterious Russian writer of Ukrainian origin was born in 1809 in the village of Veliky Sorochintsy (Poltava province, Mirgorod district). It is also no secret that his parents were landowners. But few researchers went into the writer's genealogy. But she is very interesting. Gogol’s biography indicates that the child’s attitude was formed under the influence of his father and mother. Their stories also left a lasting impression on him. Maria Ivanovna Kosyarovskaya was from a noble family. But the father was from hereditary priests. True, the grandfather of the writer, whose name was Afanasy Demyanovich, left the spiritual field and signed up for the service in the office of the hetman. Actually, he added to his last name - Yanovsky - the prefix Gogol, which "related" him to the glorious colonel of the 17th century, Eustachius.

Childhood

Father's stories about the Cossack ancestors instilled in young Nikolai a love of Ukrainian history. But even more than the memoirs of Vasily Afanasevich, the very place where he lived influenced the formation of the writer’s personality . Gogol’s biography tells us that he spent his childhood in the Vasilievka family estate, which is located in the immediate vicinity of Dykanka. There are villages in Ukraine, about which the surrounding inhabitants say that sorcerers and witches live there. In the Carpathian region they are called Malfars, while in the Poltava region, different terrible stories were simply passed from mouth to mouth, in which the inhabitants of Dikanka appeared. All this left an indelible imprint on the boy’s soul.

Parallel reality

Having completed his studies at the gymnasium in 1828, Nikolai left for the capital, St. Petersburg, in the hope that a bright future would now open before him. But there he was waiting for a cruel disappointment. He did not manage to get a job, the first attempts at writing provoked derogatory criticism. Gogol's biography defines this period in the writer's life as realistic. He works as a minor official in the allotment department. The gray, routine life proceeds, as it were, in parallel with the creative search for the writer. He attends the lessons of the Academy of Arts, and after the success of the story "Basavryuk" he gets acquainted with Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Delvig.

Gogol's biography and emigration

The theme of the "little man", criticism of the Russian bureaucracy, grotesque and satire - all this is embodied in the cycle of St. Petersburg stories, the comedy "The Inspector General", as well as the world famous poem "Dead Souls". However, Ukraine did not leave the writer's heart. He, in addition to “Evenings on a Farm”, writes the historical novel “Taras Bulba” and the horror “Wii”. After the reactionary persecution of the “Inspector”, the writer leaves Russia and leaves first for Switzerland, then for France and Italy. Gogol’s biography allows us to understand that somewhere in the second half of the 1840s, the writer's work gave an unexpected inclination towards fanaticism, mysticism and praise of the autocracy. The writer returns to Russia and writes a series of publications that alienated his former friends. In 1852, on the verge of a mental breakdown, the writer burns the second volume of Dead Souls. A few days later, on February 21, Gogol died.