Secrets, riddles and pseudonyms of Gogol

Perhaps, this is the most mysterious person in Russian literature - Nikolai Gogol. His propensity for contradictions and mysticism can be traced in all works. Tragicomedy as a mirror of society as a whole and of each individual person is the favorite genre of the writer. His biographical facts also testify to his mysterious soul. Even the numerous pseudonyms of Gogol tell the reader about the author's insecurity in himself and his creativity.

Early Gogol

The future writer was born in 1809 in the poor landlord family of Gogol-Yanovsky in the village of Bolshye Sorochintsy in the Poltava region. In his youth, as a gymnasium student at the Nezhin High School of High Science, he strongly gravitated towards acting and literature, as well as fashionable at the beginning of the century free-thinking. In dreams he saw for himself a high civilian career, with these dreams he left for Petersburg, thinking about dedicating himself to justice. However, the love of literature superseded all throwing, and Nikolai Vasilyevich devoted himself entirely to writing.

However, along with creativity rooted in the future geniuses and doubts, which prevented him openly publish their creations. Gogol's aliases were on the title pages of his books for many years to come. At the age of twenty he published the first book, an idyllic tale "Ganz Küchelgarten", under the name of the author V. Alov. The publication had no success, the criticism in literary journals was murderous, and Gogol bought up the entire circulation and burned, although under an assumed name he would not have been exposed. But all the pseudonyms of Gogol were still ahead.

New creative hoaxes

Really mature works of the writer originate from "Evening on a Farm near Dikanka". The narrative was conducted on behalf of the farmer's beekeeper Rudy Panko.

No matter how the author concealed himself from fame, he hinted at his personality in pseudonyms: "ruddy" means "redhead", according to the color of Gogol's own hair, and Panko - the name of his grandfather Panas (Athanasius). "Evenings" brought him fame, the young Little Russian author learned all of Petersburg. But he continued to write and print not under his own name. Gogol's alias followed one after another: G. Yanov, P. Glechik, OOOO, and others. And so it was until in the press V. Belinsky openly chided him: why is he so hiding, and what is so afraid of? The writer realized that there was no point in further hiding, and on this Gogol's pseudonyms ended, and his main books already came out under his surname: plays "The Inspector General", "The Marriage", the poem "Dead Souls", Petersburg novels Nevsky Prospekt, Nos "," Overcoat "," Notes of a Madman ".

"The Mysterious Carlo" is another pseudonym of the young Gogol?

No, it was not a pseudonym, but a nickname, which his comrades in high school gave to a secretive character. Sneakiness, mystery, piety and a penchant for mysticism came from his parents. Faith in prophecy and evil spirit are reflected in the works of Gogol "Viy", "May night, or drowned woman."

Obviously, these phobias became the source of his growing depression. Internal dissatisfaction with his work accompanied the writer to the end of life. Even being already a well-known writer, recognized and caressed by Pushkin himself, Zhukovsky, Belinsky and other literary geniuses, Gogol was tormented by doubts that affected his mental state. In 1852, shortly before his death, experiencing a grave emotional crisis, the writer burned the second volume of Dead Souls. The pseudonym of the early Gogol Alov, meaning the color of the dawn and high hopes, would hardly correspond to the late Gogol, who realized the depressing loneliness and tragedy of a person's stay in this vast crowded world.

In recent years, he was panicked with death, not even so much death, as the prospect of being buried alive. He asked his friends to be especially attentive after his death. February 21, 1852 in Moscow rumor: died Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Three days later he was buried, and other rumors spread around the capital: Gogol was buried alive after all. Even after the writer left, there were many mystical stories around his name ...