Николай Гоголь
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В захолустном городке Б. было так скучно и кисло, что если бы не бывший кавалерист, а ныне один из главных местных аристократов – помещик Пифагор Пифагорович Чертокуцкий, то не было бы в этом городишке вообще ничего примечательного. Пифагор Пифагорович вносил пусть и небольшое, но все-таки оживление в жизнь Б. Всегда подтянутый и щегольски одетый, он бывал на всех многолюдных ярмарках и собраниях. Не пропускал ни одного более мене значимого обеда, в общем вел себя по-барски, любил пускать пыль в глаза и слыл «изрядным помещиком». На одном из таких званых обедов, который давал генерал одного из кавалерийских полков, Чертокуцкий неосторожно пообещал хозяину застолья продать свою коляску, удобную, вместительную и красивую, под стать гнедой кобыле генерала, которую тот приобрел совсем недавно. Ну что ж, как говорится: слово не воробей, вылетит не поймаешь, и уже на следующий день к ужасу Пифагора Пифагоровича к его дому подъехали несколько экипажей во главе с генералом. Так же не пропустите ранее вышедшие аудиокниги Н.В. Гоголя: «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки», «Мертвые души», «Ревизор», «Вий», «Тарас Бульба», «Портрет», «Нос», «Шинель». Исполняет: Александр Клюквин ©&℗ ИП Воробьев В.А. ©&℗ ИД СОЮЗ
Сорочинская ярмарка
«Сорочинская ярмарка» – повесть, действие которой разворачивается на родине писателя, в селе Великие Сорочинцы Миргородского района Полтавской области.
Размышления о Божественной Литургии
«Целью этой книги – показать, в какой полноте и внутренней глубокой связи совершается наша Литургия, юношам и людям, еще начинающим, еще мало ознакомленным с ее значением. Из множества объяснений, сделанных Отцами и Учителями, выбраны здесь только те, которые доступны всем своей простотою и доступностью, которые служат преимущественно к тому, чтобы понять необходимый и правильный исход одного действия из другого. Намеренье издающего эту книгу состоит в том, чтобы утвердился в голове читателя порядок всего. Он уверен, что всякому, со вниманьем следующему за Литургиею, повторяя всякое слово, глубокое внутреннее значенье ее раскрываться будет само собою…»
Мертвые души
В губернский город NN приезжает человек – что называется, средней руки во всем: ни стар, ни молод, ни богат, ни беден. Господин этот по фамилии Чичиков, совершив светские визиты вежливости к городской знати, принимается за объезд имений местных помещиков, интересуясь странным на первый взгляд, делом: он хочет купить мертвых душ… Роман-поэма Николая Васильевича Гоголя «Мертвые души» является признанной энциклопедией человеческих душ и характеров, типажей России того времени. Искрометный слог и сюжет пережил уже не одно поколение читателей, и актуален по наши дни. Гоголь планировал завершить роман в форме трилогии – на манер «Божественной комедии» Данте Алигьери. Второй том, написанный им практически целиком во время последних путешествий по Европе, был уже практически готов. Но обуреваемый душевными терзаниями и ударившийся в мистификации автор сжигает его – ровно за десять дней до своей собственной кончины.
The Viy
"Viy", also translated as «The Viy», is a horror novella by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in the first volume of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835). The title is also the name of the demonic entity central to the plot. Every summer, there is usually a large procession of all the students moving around the area as they travel home. However, the group is reduced to three students: the theologian Khaliava, the philosopher Khoma Brut, and the rhetorician Tibery Gorobets. As the night draws in, the students hope to find a village near the main road where they can find some rest and food. However, they become lost in the wilderness, eventually coming upon two small houses and a farm. An older woman there tells them she has a little room and cannot accommodate any more travelers, but she eventually agrees to let them stay. At night, the woman comes to Khoma. At first, he thinks she is trying to seduce him, but then she draws closer and he sees that her eyes are glowing strangely. She leaps on his back, and he reluctantly finds himself galloping with her all over the countryside with a strength he previously never knew. He eventually slows the witch by chanting exorcisms out loud, and then rides on her back and later picks up a piece of wood and beats her as punishment. The older woman later collapses, and he discovers she has turned into a beautiful girl. Khoma runs away to Kyiv and resumes his easy life, when a rumor reaches his dean that a rich cossack’s daughter was found crawling home near death, her last wish being for Khoma the philosopher to come and read psalms over her corpse for three nights after her death. The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, The Cloak, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.
The Nose
"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, «The Nose» tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. «The Nose» was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin. The use of a nose as the main source of conflict in the story could have been due to Gogol's own experience with an oddly shaped nose, which was often the subject of self-deprecating jokes in letters. The use of iconic landmarks in the story, as well as the sheer absurdity of the story, has made «The Nose» an important part of St. Petersburg's literary tradition. "The Nose" is divided into three parts and tells the story of Collegiate Assessor ('Major') Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning without his nose. He later finds out that his nose has developed a life of its own, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of State Councillor. The short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued Russia after Peter the Great introduced the Table of Ranks. By allowing commoners to gain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a huge population was given the chance to move up in social status. This opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of Gogol's characters worked. The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.
The Mantle
"Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch. Born in the government of Pultowa, March 31 1809, died at Moscow, March 4 1852. A Russian novelist and dramatist. He was educated in a public gymnasium at Pultowa, and subsequently in the lyceum, then newly established, at Niejinsk. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. ‘The Nose’ is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and ‘The Overcoat’ is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written. Nikolai Gogol, the Russian writer and playwright, who understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” Born in Ukraine – then a colony dubbed “Little Russia” – Gogol began writing stories while pursuing a short-lived government career in St. Petersburg. He started with Ukrainian folklore, and a sinister, fairy-tale lightness persists in his later, more renowned stories about the imperial capital. There are supernatural accents, but the underlying world is real, made strange by an infrared humor that finds cosmic anarchy in the smallest fissures of everyday life. The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, The Mantle, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.
The Cloak
"The Overcoat" (sometimes translated as «The Cloak») is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: «We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.» The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department for his hard work. Instead, the younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes. Akaky decides it is necessary to have the coat repaired, so he takes it to his tailor, Petrovich, who declares the coat irreparable, telling Akaky he must buy a new overcoat. The cost of a new overcoat is beyond Akaky's meager salary, so he forces himself to live within a strict budget to save sufficient money to buy the new overcoat. Meanwhile, he and Petrovich frequently meet to discuss the style of the new coat. During that time, Akaky's zeal for copying is replaced with excitement about his new overcoat, to the point that he thinks of little else. Finally, with the addition of an unexpectedly large holiday salary bonus, Akaky has saved enough money to buy a new overcoat. The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, The Cloak, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.
Memoirs of a Madman
Memoirs of a Madman or Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol’s greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. Diary of a Madman, the only one of Gogol’s works written in first person, follows diary-entry format. Diary of a Madman centres on the life of Poprishchin, a low-ranking civil servant and titular counsellor who yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, the daughter of a senior official, with whom he has fallen in love. Sophie, the daughter of his boss, with whom he has fallen in love. As he said in his first sight of her, just after being a beast of a civil servant himself, “A footman opened the carriage door and out she fluttered, just like a little bird.” Nothing comes of this love he feels for her; Sophie is effectively unaware of him. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity. The most famous and inspirational works of Nikolai Gogol include The Mantle, Evenings at the Farm, St Petersburg Stories, Taras Bulba, a tale of the Cossacks, The Revizor, The Viy, The Nose, A May Night, Memoirs of a Madman and many more.