Overcoat. Petersburg novels

The "Petersburg Tales" of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852) describe the life in St. Petersburg of the 30s and 40s of the XIX century. The collection included: "Nevsky Prospekt", "nose", "Portrait", "Overcoat", "stroller", "Notes of a madman".
Heroes of "Petersburg Stories" - "little people" with low social status and without outstanding abilities. In the stories, the squalor of the morals and spirituality of the bureaucratic and secular environment is also convinced.
"Petersburg novels" reflected the identity of the literary talent of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Critic V.G. Belinsky wrote: "The distinctive nature of Gogol’s novels are - simplicity of fiction, nationality, perfect truth of life, originality and comic animation, always defeated by a deep sense of sadness and despondency. The reason for all these qualities lies in one source: G. Gogol is a poet, a poet of real life. "