This book tells about the life and creative path of the great Russian writer.
His life was not filled with external events. Everything in it was devoted to intense work, to deep inner analysis of his actions and thoughts.
The writer’s calling, for Gogol, was inseparably fused with the public, educational role of art—it became for him a creative feat. This difficult, selfless life, ending in a tragic catastrophe, is what the book is about.
The biography of the writer is reconstructed here based on his letters, autobiographical admissions, documents, memories, and testimonies from contemporaries.