The collection "Mirgorod" (1835) includes terrible and cheerful, fantastic and realistic, satirical and comic stories of the great master of an art word of N.V.Gogol. The writer forces us to fade with horror, listening to "the national legend» about bursake-philosopher Home Brute and a pannochke-witch ("Vy"); to admire scope and recklessness of a Cossack life in Zaporozhye Sech, force of love of the young Cossack to poland woman («Taras Bulba»);to be touched stories of a life of small landowners («Old-world landowners»); sarcastically to grin concerning inutile quarrel of two neighbours.