There is no other door ... about Gogol and not only

In the book of V.A. Voropaev, the famous Russian Gogoleved, professor of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, articles and essays have been included in the last fifteen years and supplemented and processed for this publication. Gogol’s textbook works ("Dead Souls"), his spiritual prose ("Selected places from correspondence with friends", "thoughts about the Divine Liturgy"), as well as the compositions almost unknown to the modern reader, such as, for example,, for example,, as well as, for example, are meaningful. , a poetic prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, found after the death of the writer and became almost the most famous work in the Slavic (and not only) countries. The book in detail, with the involvement of new, including archival materials, highlights the most debatable aspects of Gogol’s biography (traveling to Jerusalem, visiting Optina Desert, relations with the Optina elders, Archpriest Matthew Konstantinovsky, the fate of the second volume of “Dead Souls”, circumstances and causes of death Gogol. The life and work of the writer are considered through the prism of his religious worldview.
The rich new factual material will undoubtedly be useful to the gogo-chefs, and a simple and fascinating language makes the book interesting and accessible to a wide range of readers