Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1809вÐ"â€1852) вÐ"†velikii russkii pisatel, sozdatel osobogo, nepovtorimogo stilia v literature. Talant Gogolia proiavliaetsia vo vsekh ego proizvedeniiakh po-raznomu вÐ"†to porazhaet chitatelia bogatstvom iazyka i ukrainskim koloritom, kak v Ð"«Vecherakh na khutore bliz DikankiÐ"», to uvlekaet fantastikoi peterburgskikh povestei, to vyzyvaet smekh, kak v Ð"«RevizoreÐ"» i Ð"«Mertvykh dushakhÐ"». Khudozhniki-illiustratory: P. Boklevskii, A. Agin.