The book presents Gogol’s letters, letters to Gogol, and recollections from his contemporaries. Readers’ and viewers’ impressions—simply reviews of Gogol. All these texts create a portrait not only of Gogol the writer, but also of him as a person and of his surroundings.
And it also offers precious information about the conditions and circumstances of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s work as a writer.