Gogol and the geographical imagination of Romanticism

In 1831, the first publication of the article by N.V. Gogol “Several Thoughts of Teaching Children of Geography” took place. The topic raised in it meant a lot for the author of "Dead Souls" - it is known that he was planning to write a whole book about the geography of Russia. Detailed geographical descriptions, designed in the spirit of the scientific works of the first half of the XIX century, are also found in the works of Gogol. It was during the years of the writer’s life that geography as a science had to emerge, and it was fed by the ideas of German romanticism, and its methodology was built according to the patterns of an artistic landscape. Based on the concept of geographical imagination developed in intellectual history over the past few decades, I. Vidigita for the first time considers the intertextual intersections of Gogol’s work with the geographical discourse of his time. The author not only traces the connection between the spatial images of the writer and the specific geographical and cartographic sources, but also shows that Gogol was one of the first in Russia to formulate the principles that formed the basis of modern geography