Perhaps, this is the most mysterious person in the Russianliterature - Nikolay Gogol. His propensity for contradictions and mysticism is traced in all works. Tragicomedy as a mirror of society as a whole and of each individual person is the favorite genre of the writer. The facts of his biography also testify to his mysterious soul. Even the numerous pseudonyms of Gogol tell the reader about the author's insecurity in himself and his creativity.
Early Gogol
The future writer was born in 1809 in a poorGogol-Yanovsky's landlord family in the village of Bolshye Sorochintsy in the Poltava region. In his youth, being a gymnasium student at the Nezhin High School of High Science, he strongly gravitated towards acting and literature, as well as fashionable at the beginning of the century free-thinking. In his dreams he saw for himself a high civilian career, with these dreams he left for Petersburg, thinking about dedicating himself to justice. However, the love of literature superseded all throwing, and Nikolai Vasilyevich devoted himself entirely to writing.
However, along with creativity rooted in the futuregeniuses and doubts that prevented him from publicly publishing his creations. Gogol's nicknames for many years were on the title pages of his books. At the age of twenty he published the first book, the idyllic story "Ganz Küchelgarten", under the name of the author V. Alov. The publication had no success, the criticism in literary journals was deadly, and Gogol bought up the entire print run and burned, although under an assumed name he would not have been exposed. But all the pseudonyms of Gogol were still ahead.
New creative hoaxes
Really mature works of the writer originate from "Evening on a Farm near Dikanka". The narrative was conducted on behalf of the farmer's beekeeper Rudy Panko.
No matter how the author hides from fame, but onhis identity in pseudonyms hinted: "ruddy" means "red", the color of the hair of Gogol himself, and Panko - the name of his grandfather Panas (Athanasius). "Evenings" brought him fame, the young Little Russian author learned all of Petersburg. But he continued to write and print not under his own name. Gogol's alias followed one after another: G. Yanov, P. Glechik, OOOO, and others. And so it was until in the press V. Belinsky openly blamed him: what is he so hiding, and what is so afraid of? The writer realized that there was no point in further hiding, and on this Gogol's pseudonyms ended, and his main books already came out under his surname: plays "The Inspector General", "The Marriage", the poem "Dead Souls", Petersburg novels Nevsky Prospekt, Nos "," Overcoat "," Notes of a Madman ".
"Mysterious Carlo" - another nickname for young Gogol?
No, it was not a pseudonym, but a nickname thatgave his comrades in high school for a secretive character. Sneakiness, mystery, piety and a penchant for mysticism came from his parents. Belief in prophecy and evil spirit was reflected in the works of Gogol "Viy", "May night, or drowned woman."
Obviously, these phobias and became its source allincreasing depression. Internal dissatisfaction with his work accompanied the writer to the end of life. Even being already a well-known writer, recognized and caressed by Pushkin himself, Zhukovsky, Belinsky and other literary geniuses, Gogol was tormented by doubts that affected his mental state. In 1852, shortly before his death, experiencing a grave emotional crisis, the writer burned the second volume of Dead Souls. The pseudonym of the early Gogol Alov, meaning the color of the dawn and high hopes, would hardly correspond to the late Gogol, who realized the depressing loneliness and tragedy of a person's stay in this vast crowded world.
In recent years, he was afraid of death, evennot so much death, as the prospect of being buried alive. He asked his friends to be especially attentive after his death. February 21, 1852 in Moscow rumor: died Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Three days later he was buried, and other rumors spread around the capital: Gogol was still buried alive. Even after the writer left, there were many mystical stories around his name ...
