The last years of the life of the great Russian prose writer and playwright Gogol passed in a painful struggle between the artist and the Orthodox thinker. This internal discord served him as the mortal weapon that killed him. However, the significance of his many famous works for Russian literature has become extremely important and deep. A brief chronological table of Gogol contains only dry facts. In fact, a lot of incredible events took place with Gogol, which will make us consider him a great mystic, although in fact he was a real Christian.
Gogol's chronological table
03.20. (01.04) 1809 | In the Great Sorochintsy (Poltava province of the Mirgorod district) N.V. was born Gogol. |
1818-1819 | He and his brother Ivan study at the district school of the city of Poltava |
1819 | Brother Ivan passed away. |
1820-1821 | The writer lives with the Poltava teacher G. Sorochinsky and works hard with him. |
1821-1828 | Studying at the Nizhyn gymnasium. |
1825 | Gogol's father died (V.A. Gogol-Yanovsky). |
1828 | At the end of his studies, Gogol moved to Petersburg. The writer is experiencing a serious lack of funds. Works under the pseudonym V.Alov and publishes the work “Hans Küchelgarten”. |
1829 | He goes to Germany and creates the work "Italy". |
1830 | He writes the story “Bisavryuk, or Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala”. |
1830 - 1831 | Approaching V.A. Zhukovsky and A.S. Pushkin, which certainly affects his further literary fate. |
1831-1832 | Gogol creates "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". |
1831-1835 | He works as a teacher at the Patriotic Institute. |
1834-1835 | Gets an associate position at St. Petersburg University. |
1834 | He is a member of the Society of lovers of Russian literature, which was organized at Moscow University. |
1835 | Gogol publishes two collections of essays, “Arabesques” and “Mirgorod,” which includes works by “Taras Bulba”, “Old World Landowners”, “Viy”, etc. |
1835-1842 | Start of work on the first volume, Dead Souls. |
1836 | Comedy "The Examiner" is completed. His first productions in the St. Petersburg and Moscow theaters begin. After Gogol goes abroad (Germany, France, Switzerland and Rome). |
1839 | Return to Moscow. Edition of the work “Dead Souls” and the novel “The Overcoat”. |
1848 | Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Jerusalem). |
1851 | Gogol settles in Moscow in the house of his old friend A. Tolstoy. |
02/13. 1852 | The burning of the second book, Dead Souls. |
02.21. (4.03.) 1852 | The death of Gogol in Moscow. In 1931, the writer was reburied at the Novodevichy cemetery. |
On this Gogol's chronological table ends. In fact, it is worthwhile to carefully study the biography of this great man, it is really very unusual and interesting.
Gogol's biography: brief
Gogol was born into the impoverished family of the landowner Gogol-Yanovsky. Gogol’s chronological table contains only the most important dates from the biography of the writer. And so I want to describe her events in more detail.
So, it is in the Nizhyn Gymnasium that the future Russian writer begins to manifest literary, artistic and acting talents.
The dream of becoming a lawyer
However, with all this, Gogol dreamed of becoming a lawyer, so he went to Petersburg. Having learned more closely the entire bureaucratic life of the capital, he did not want to work in justice. Then he tries himself in other fields. He even worked as a teacher of history, but literature took up, this was facilitated by his acquaintance and cooperation with Pushkin, which had a huge impact on him. A celebrity came to Gogol with the work “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. And then in the dramaturgy Gogol will begin to shine thanks to his “Examiner”.
Deadly longing
But due to the caustic satire, literary critics ganged up on him. Therefore, falling into a deep depression, he was forced to leave Russia and spend abroad as much as 12 years. He visited homeland very rarely. In Italy, he will write his famous work, Dead Souls, which will cause such a great public outcry that it cannot even compare with the comedy The Inspector General.
Gogol died of nervous and physical exhaustion and loss of strength in Moscow at the age of 43 years.