Dead Souls: Poem

The idea of ​​dead souls not quite eagerly lost to Nikolay Gogolo Poet Alexander Pushkin. For the first time published in May 1842, according to the author, the preventable strongly funny novel, soon began to be perceived as one of the most amazing (Herzen) of Russian books. In it, without exaggeration, the eternal essence of Russia was embodied. In the dead souls There are words of reconciliation, there are premonitions and hopes of the future, full and solemn, but it does not interfere with the real reference in all disgusting reality.
Russian reader of the late XIX - early XX century saw Gogol Russia through the eyes of the outstanding artists-illustrators of that time, the degree of skill of whose work with the Great Poem remained unsurpassed. For the first time under a cover - the classic image of the classic work of Russian literature created by the painters of the past